Bone Abstracts

Background: The mineral content of the skeleton in children may be estimated by a number of methods including DXA-scanning, ultrasound, pQCT-scanning and from plain radiographs. Recently, a new method offering an estimating of the bone mineral content in children based on computerised assessment from hand radiographs has been introduced. The new measure is named bone health index (BHI) and expresses the mineral content in the metacarpal bones divided by the volume of the same ...

Hand X-rays from patients with hypophosphatemic rickets (HR) were assessed to evaluate if HR influences the dimensions of the metacarpal bones and the distribution between cortical and cancellous bone. In addition, we aimed to test the hypothesis that HR caused by mutation in DMP1 has a greater impact on bone dimensions than HR caused by mutations in PHEX.Hand X-rays from 17 children with HR were evaluated. Three children had HR caused ...