Re: knee x-ray for bone age

September 7, 2000

Meribeth

In my limited experience, Adam's has always been wrist/hand. And any

literature I have read only refers to hand/wrist.

Let us know if you find out this is the " new " craze. Then we can all go

stampeding in for our kids to have knee xrays and be looked at even more

strangely than we normally are )

Debby

Meribeth Holec wrote:

>

> Before I call Dr. H back for clarification thought I'd ask this group

> of professionals. When we saw Dr. H last week I brought with two

> bone age studies of TJ's hand/wrist. Before I had a chance to pull

> them out Dr. H said I hope those are of his knee not his wrist.

>

> She said in a child his size, 13 pounds and 20 months, the knee is

> more accurate. Well upon our return I called our Ped. who said she

> would call a Radiologist at our local hospital to see if they can do

> it there. She just called me back and said the Radiologist had never

> heard of a knee x-ray for bone age so obviously we could not get it

> done there.

>

> Now I am thinking perhaps we misunderstood Dr. H. Has anyone else

> had the knee verses the hand/wrist done? Just wanted to check it out

> here before I ask our Ped to call anywhere else.

>

> Thanks,

> Meribeth

September 12, 2000

Maybe I'm just adding confustion to this matter but when Sapphire had her

bone age done she had a full skeletal survey. As it happened this showed up

that she had a problem with the ball in the ball and socket joint in one

hip. This has yet to cause a problem but I suppose in one way it is

conforting to be aware of a potential problem as long as I do not see it as

an immediate problem.

Kindness always

knee x-ray for bone age

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