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Bone Health Assessment in Pediatrics

Guidelines for Clinical Practice

  • Expands upon the first edition with several new chapters and complete updates
  • Includes accompanying online research with intake and registration forms, health questionnaires, and normative data
  • Developed by international group of experts

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Rationale for Bone Health Assessment in Childhood and Adolescence

    • Maria Luisa Bianchi, Aenor J. Sawyer, Laura K. Bachrach
    Pages 1-21
  3. Tools for Measuring Bone in Children and Adolescents

    • Kate A. Ward, Thomas M. Link, Judith E. Adams
    Pages 23-52
  4. Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiomery Technology

    • John Shepherd, Nicola J. Crabtree
    Pages 53-74
  5. Indications for DXA in Children and Adolescents

    • Sarah Pitts, Catherine M. Gordon
    Pages 75-87
  6. Acquisition of DXA in Children and Adolescents

    • Nicola J. Crabtree, Kyla Kent
    Pages 89-114
  7. Analysis and Evaluation of DXA in Children and Adolescents

    • Babette S. Zemel, Heidi J. Kalkwarf
    Pages 115-134
  8. DXA Evaluation of Infants and Toddlers

    • Bonny L. Specker, Teresa L. Binkley
    Pages 151-177
  9. DXA in Children with Special Needs

    • Heidi H. Kecskemethy, Elizabeth Szalay, H. Theodore Harcke
    Pages 179-203
  10. Lessons Learned from Clinical Research Using QCT, pQCT, and HR-pQCT

    • Heather M. Macdonald, Heather A. McKay, Mary B. Leonard
    Pages 239-265
  11. Evaluation of Fracture Without Known Trauma: Use of DXA in Differential Diagnosis

    • M. Zulf Mughal, Amanda T. Whitaker, Aenor J. Sawyer
    Pages 267-283
  12. What’s Next in the Field of Bone Health in Pediatrics? Research Considerations

    • Sharmila Majumdar, Tony M. Keavney, Luis Del Rio, Oliver Semler, Renaud Winzenrieth
    Pages 285-313
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 315-347

About this book

The gold-standard resource for evaluating bone health in children and adolescents, this practical and highly anticipated second edition offers a comprehensive, fully updated resource for addressing bone health in these populations.  Developed by a renowned international panel of experts in measuring and analyzing bone density in the pediatric patient and reflecting the 2013 International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) Guidelines for Pediatric DXA assessment, interpretation and reporting, this indispensable reference covers all the important changes in the field over the last 9 years.  Some highlights of this edition include: an entire chapter on the assessment of infants and toddlers, a chapter devoted to the assessment of children with disabling conditions, an in-depth discussion of vertebral fracture and its etiologies, and a thorough review of the advantages and limitations of densitometry techniques including DXA, pQCT, HRpQCT, and MRI.  New fracture prediction software, including Trabecular Bone Score and Finite Element Analysis, is described. In this edition, the limitations of DXA are addressed as are the most recent strategies for handling them including proposed DXA adjustments such as height Z-score. Solidifying itself as the leading text in the field, Bone Health Assessment in Pediatrics: Guidelines for Clinical Practice, 2nd edition provides all of the critical basic analysis and evaluation tools, images, and calculations necessary for clinical practice. 

Reviews

“As bones are basic constituents of body growth, their health are of great importance in childhood. This volume discusses in 13 chapters the tools for measuring bone health from DEXA to CT, pOCT and HR-pOCT. … Fro pediatricians, roentgenologists, orthopedics and surgeons.” (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), vol. 14 (3), March, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, USA

    Ellen B. Fung

  • Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

    Laura K. Bachrach

  • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Aenor J. Sawyer

About the editors

Ellen B. Fung, PhD, RD, CCD

Director, Bone Density Clinic
Associate Scientist
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland Department of Hematology Oakland, CA



Laura K. Bachrach, MD
Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5208


Aenor J. Sawyer, MD, MS
Director, UCSF Skeletal Health Service
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
UCSF Medical Center
San Francisco, CA






Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bone Health Assessment in Pediatrics

  • Book Subtitle: Guidelines for Clinical Practice

  • Editors: Ellen B. Fung, Laura K. Bachrach, Aenor J. Sawyer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30412-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30410-6Published: 16 September 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80802-4Published: 09 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30412-0Published: 09 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 347

  • Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Orthopedics, Endocrinology, Pediatrics

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