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Sex differences in linear bone measurements occur following puberty but do not influence femoral or tibial torsion
Torsional, angular, and linear measurements in a paediatric population are clinically important but not well defined and understood. Different methods of measurement and discrepancies between assessors leads to a lack of understanding of what should be defined as typical or atypical for the growing...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10359265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37474546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38783-6 |
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author | Carman, Laura Besier, Thor Stott, N. Susan Choisne, Julie |
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description | Torsional, angular, and linear measurements in a paediatric population are clinically important but not well defined and understood. Different methods of measurement and discrepancies between assessors leads to a lack of understanding of what should be defined as typical or atypical for the growing skeleton. From a large dataset of 333 paediatric CT scans, we extracted three-dimensional torsional, angular, and linear measurements from the pelvis, femur, and tibia/fibula. Sex differences in linear measurements were observed in bones of children aged 13+ (around puberty), but femoral and tibial torsion were similar between males and females. The rotational profile (femoral anteversion minus tibial torsion) tended to increase with growth. Epicondylar, condylar, and malleolar widths were smaller in females than males for the same bone length after the age of 13 years, which could explain why females may be more at risk for sport injuries during adolescence. This rich dataset can be used as an atlas for researchers and clinicians to understand typical development of critical rotational profiles and linear bone measurements in children. |
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spelling | pubmed-103592652023-07-22 Sex differences in linear bone measurements occur following puberty but do not influence femoral or tibial torsion Carman, Laura Besier, Thor Stott, N. Susan Choisne, Julie Sci Rep Article Torsional, angular, and linear measurements in a paediatric population are clinically important but not well defined and understood. Different methods of measurement and discrepancies between assessors leads to a lack of understanding of what should be defined as typical or atypical for the growing skeleton. From a large dataset of 333 paediatric CT scans, we extracted three-dimensional torsional, angular, and linear measurements from the pelvis, femur, and tibia/fibula. Sex differences in linear measurements were observed in bones of children aged 13+ (around puberty), but femoral and tibial torsion were similar between males and females. The rotational profile (femoral anteversion minus tibial torsion) tended to increase with growth. Epicondylar, condylar, and malleolar widths were smaller in females than males for the same bone length after the age of 13 years, which could explain why females may be more at risk for sport injuries during adolescence. This rich dataset can be used as an atlas for researchers and clinicians to understand typical development of critical rotational profiles and linear bone measurements in children. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10359265/ /pubmed/37474546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38783-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Carman, Laura Besier, Thor Stott, N. Susan Choisne, Julie Sex differences in linear bone measurements occur following puberty but do not influence femoral or tibial torsion |
title | Sex differences in linear bone measurements occur following puberty but do not influence femoral or tibial torsion |
title_full | Sex differences in linear bone measurements occur following puberty but do not influence femoral or tibial torsion |
title_fullStr | Sex differences in linear bone measurements occur following puberty but do not influence femoral or tibial torsion |
title_full_unstemmed | Sex differences in linear bone measurements occur following puberty but do not influence femoral or tibial torsion |
title_short | Sex differences in linear bone measurements occur following puberty but do not influence femoral or tibial torsion |
title_sort | sex differences in linear bone measurements occur following puberty but do not influence femoral or tibial torsion |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10359265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37474546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38783-6 |
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