Overview
- Editors:
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Aenor J. Sawyer
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Pediatric Bone Health Consortium and Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland, Oakland
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Laura K. Bachrach
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Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford
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Ellen B. Fung
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Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland, Oakland
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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- Aenor J. Sawyer, Laura K. Bachrach
Pages 1-13
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- Kate A. Ward, Zulf Mughal, Judith E. Adams
Pages 15-40
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- Nicola J. Crabtree, Mary B. Leonard, Babette S. Zemel
Pages 41-57
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- Laura K. Bachrach, Michael A. Levine, Christopher T. Cowell, Nicholas J. Shaw
Pages 59-72
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- Nicola J. Crabtree, Kyla Kent, Babette S. Zemel
Pages 73-91
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- Moira Petit, Kyla Kent, Mary B. Leonard, Heather McKay, Babette S. Zemel
Pages 93-113
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- Babette S. Zemel, Moira Petit
Pages 115-125
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- Ellen B. Fung, Laura K. Bachrach, Julie N. Briody, Christopher T. Cowell
Pages 127-136
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- Laurie J. Moyer-Mileur, Zulf Mughal, Ellen B. Fung
Pages 137-158
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- Mary B. Leonard, Moira Petit
Pages 159-172
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- Nicholas J. Bishop, Aenor J. Sawyer, Mary B. Leonard
Pages 173-178
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Back Matter
Pages 223-226
About this book
Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients: Guidelines for Clinical Practice, edited by Drs. Sawyer, Bachrach, and Fung, is a milestone book for all health prof- sionals concerned with bone health in growing patients. The book introduces and emphasizes the importance of attending to issues of bone health and development in childhood and adolescence as a way of maintaining such health and decreasing the epidemic of osteoporosis that we are now seeing in older adults. In doing so, the book offers a much-needed first set of standards of bone densitometry in growing patients. Given the numerous reports of serious interpretation errors in densitometry results in children, the development of this body of work is truly important. It is in this context that Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients: Guidelines for Clinical Practice presents the current evidence, including an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses in the data on assessing bone density in childhood and adolescence. In short, the editors and authors have done an outstanding job of or- nizing not only the key topics in this broad clinical discussion, but also, and most importantly, the evidence within these areas.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Part of the Series Current Clinical Practice, the volume written by authors from several countries reviews in 11 chapters various tools for measuring bone in children and adolescents, but the main theme is to describe the indications, use and interpretation of DXA. A clearly written text useful to clinicians and technicians." (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Vol. 4 (3), March, 2007)
Editors and Affiliations
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Pediatric Bone Health Consortium and Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland, Oakland
Aenor J. Sawyer
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Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford
Laura K. Bachrach
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Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland, Oakland
Ellen B. Fung
