A Simplified Method for Assessing Bone Age in Adolescents.
Simplified bone age method matches GP within 1 year in 91% of readings
A Simplified Method for Assessing Bone Age in Adolescents.
To develop and evaluate a simplified method for skeletal age assessment in adolescents as a rapid alternative to the Greulich-Pyle (Greulich-Pyle) method.
One hundred and seventeen hand and wrist radiographs (67 boys, 50 girls) from adolescents referred for short stature but otherwise healthy.
Reliability coefficients for both methods exceeded 0.9.
Repeatability of the simplified method was slightly lower than Greulich-Pyle but remained within clinically acceptable limits and close to predefined acceptability thresholds for inexperienced raters.
The simplified method offers a transparent, standardised, and reproducible approach to adolescent skeletal age assessment.
Although not intended to replace the Greulich-Pyle method, it is particularly suited to research involving large datasets or resource-limited environments and to population-level skeletal analyses.
In busy clinics, it may also serve as a quick check of radiologists' Greulich-Pyle-based interpretations, allowing review of reported bone ages without repeating a full atlas assessment.