Adapting Pediatric DXA Scanning to Clinical Orthopaedics
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- selected topics
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
- Vol. 26 (5), 686-690
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.bpo.0000230330.88534.3a
Abstract
Osteoporosis and low bone density for age is increasingly recognized in children yet poorly understood and often overlooked. DXA scanning in children is problematic due to lack of guidelines and inexperience of most DXA practitioners. The International Society for Clinical Densitometry recommends spine or total body scans as the preferred skeletal sites for study in children, yet we find multiple regional scans to be far more useful in the clinical practice of pediatric DXA scanning, especially in a pediatric orthopaedic setting. DXA scans of 119 children are reviewed: 20% of the children had orthopaedic hardware or other artifact that would have rendered the whole body scan unusable. In 20 of 119 patients, the only scan that could be obtained, either due to contracture or patient cooperation, was the distal lateral femoral scan. Scanning multiple regions of interest including spine, hip, and/or distal lateral femora as indicated is the recommended protocol for assessment of BMD in the pediatric orthopaedic setting.Keywords
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