Radiographic Atlas of Skeletal Development of the Hand and Wrist - Hardcover

Greulich, William Walter; Pyle, S. Idell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804703981 ISBN 13: 9780804703987

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1959

Synopsis

This Atlas is principally based on the Brush Foundation Study of Human Growth and Development, conceived in 1929 by Professor T. Wingate Todd of Western Reserve University School of Medicine. This intensive study collected data on the maturation of human anatomy through the meticulous X-raying of a series of research subjects enrolled in the study as juveniles―some as young as three months―and thereafter routinely weighed and measured at three-month to one-year intervals, depending on their age.

This Atlas utilizes not only the X-ray films to which Todd had access but, also, those which were obtained in the six years subsequent to Todd's publication of his Atlas of Skeletal Maturation of the Hand. The X-ray standards in the present volume are, therefore, the first to be based exclusively on the research of the Brush Foundation Study.

About this title

About the Author

William Walter Greulich is Professor of Anatomy at Stanford University School of Medicine.

S. Idell Pyle is Research Associate at the Departments of Anatomy at Western Reserve University and Stanford University School of Medicine.

From the Back Cover

"Here is a book which compiles the most accurate data on bone age in an extremely useful form, so that the practicing clinician, pediatrician, general practitioner, internist, or radiologist may find data quickly and accurately. . . . This book represents a tremendous amount of work, a study of over 1,000 individuals, with from two to twenty films each, in an effort to find an acceptable series of standards. . . . This book should be in te possession of all those who expect to interpret skeletal age from films or assess the patient from that clinical point of view."--Stanford Medical Bulletin
"To pediatrician, radiologist and all those responsible for the physical care of the child, this Atlas is essential. Text and illustration are of the highest standards, and the work will long remain the classic in the field."--The United States Quarterly Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1959
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804703981
• ISBN 13: 9780804703987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272