Ferrillo, Martina; Curci, Claudio; Roccuzzo, Andrea; Migliario, Mario; Invernizzi, Marco; de Sire, Alessandro (2021). Reliability of cervical vertebral maturation compared to hand-wrist for skeletal maturation assessment in growing subjects: A systematic review. Journal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation, 34(6), pp. 925-936. IOS Press 10.3233/BMR-210003
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BACKGROUND
Radiographic methods to assess skeletal maturity (SM) have a key role in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) management, allowing to predict risk of spinal curve progression. Cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) has been recently introduced as an alternative tool to assess skeletal maturity; however, its clinical role is still debated.
OBJECTIVE
This systematic review aimed to investigate the reliability of CVM in the SM assessment of growing subjects, comparing it to hand wrist maturation (HVM).
METHODS
PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases were systematically searched from inception until 31st December 2020 to identify observational studies presenting: growing subjects as participants; CVM methods as intervention; HVM methods as comparator; reliability for SM assessment as outcome. A 10-item quality tool has been used to assess study quality.
RESULTS
Out of 205 papers, 12 papers were included in the data synthesis. We classified 10 studies (83.3%) as medium-quality studies and 2 studies (16.7%) as high-quality studies. Eight studies reported a significant correlation between CVM Baccetti and different HWM methods.
CONCLUSION
Taken together, these findings suggested that CVM might be considered as reliable SM assessment method compared to HWM in growing subjects. However, further studies are warranted to confirm these findings.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Review Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Periodontology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Roccuzzo, Andrea |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1053-8127, 1878-6324 |
Publisher: |
IOS Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Doris Burri |
Date Deposited: |
27 Jan 2022 11:29 |
Last Modified: |
17 Jan 2023 13:52 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3233/BMR-210003 |
PubMed ID: |
33998532 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Growth and development age determination by skeleton radiology scoliosis spine |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/164011 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/164011 |
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