Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients by Aenor Sawyer

Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients by Aenor Sawyer

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.

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 DXAA clearly written text useful to clinicians and technicians." (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Vol. 4 (3), March, 2007)

Ellen B. Fung, PhD, RD, CCD
Director, Bone Density ClinicAssociate ScientistUCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland Department of Hematology Oakland, CA
Laura K. Bachrach, MDProfessorStanford University School of MedicineDepartment of Pediatrics300 Pasteur DriveStanford, CA 94305-5208
Aenor J. Sawyer, MD, MSDirector, UCSF Skeletal Health ServiceAssistant Clinical ProfessorDepartment of Orthopaedic SurgeryUCSF Medical CenterSan Francisco, CA

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ISBN 13	9781617376856
ISBN 10	161737685X
Title	Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients
Author	Aenor Sawyer
Series	Current Clinical Practice
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Humana Press Inc.
Year published	2010-11-19
Number of pages	226
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.