MR Imaging Insights into Skeletal Maturation: What is Normal?

Overview

Journal Radiology

Specialty Radiology

Date 2008 Dec 19

PMID 19092089

Citations 66

Authors

Tal Laor

Diego Jaramillo

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Abstract

Skeletal growth and maturation in children is a dynamic process that can be documented with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. There are predictable normal developmental changes that must be differentiated from pathologic processes. This review discusses the histologic structure and MR imaging appearance of normal development-related changes of the musculoskeletal system in children, including those that may be mistaken for abnormalities.

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