Existing relationships between the size and shape of the cervical vertebrae with the stages of carpal bone maturation. Part II

Abstract

A transversal descriptive study was conducted at the Stomatology Department of the Mexico Children’s Hospital «Dr. Federico Gomez» to determine if there is a relationship between maturational indicators according to Björk in hand- wrist radiographs and cervical vertebrae indicators according to Lamparski. The total sample size was 213 patients, 105 females and 108 males, all were healthy and between the ages of 6 and 17 years old. Lateral head films and hand wrist radiographs were taken from each patient. A statistical analysis was applied for ordinal data. In general 66.61% of the females had similarities between hand wrist and cervical vertebrae and 57.3% of the males. The correlation index was 0.727 for females and 0.686 for females.Key words: Hand- wrist radiograph, cervical vertebrae, correlation and maturation indicators