Elamin Fadil, Mohamed Hassan Yahya Hassan, Abdelazeem Nihal, Elamin Ahmed, Liversidge Helen M
Institute of Dentistry, Bart's and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Khartoum Centre for Research and Medical Training, Khartoum, Sudan.
Ann Hum Biol. 2023 Feb;50(1):1-7. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2022.2157484.
Maturation of bones in the hand-wrist region varies among individuals of the same age and among world groups. Although some studies from Africa report differences to other ethnic groups, the lack of detailed bone-specific maturity data prevents meaningful comparisons.
The aim of this study was to describe bone-specific maturity for developing hand-wrist bones in individuals in Khartoum, Sudan.
The sample was selected from healthy patients attending a dental hospital in Khartoum with known age and ancestry (males = 280, females = 330; aged between 3 and 25 years). Bones were assessed from radiographs of the left hand and wrist after the Greulich and Pyle Atlas (1959). Median ages of attainment for bone stages were calculated using probit analysis for each stage in males and females separately.
Maturity data for stages of the phalanges, metacarpals, carpals and radius and ulna in males and females are presented. Median ages in females were earlier compared to males for all stages. These results are largely earlier than previously published findings or where these could be calculated.
These results of individual maturity stages of phalanges, metacarpals, carpals and the distal epiphyses of the radius and ulna are useful to assess maturity in growing individuals from Sudan.
同一年龄的个体以及不同世界群体之间，手腕部骨骼的成熟情况存在差异。尽管非洲的一些研究报告了与其他种族群体的差异，但缺乏详细的特定骨骼成熟度数据，无法进行有意义的比较。
本研究旨在描述苏丹喀土穆个体发育中的手腕部骨骼的特定骨骼成熟度。
样本选自喀土穆一家牙科医院的健康患者，已知其年龄和血统（男性 = 280例，女性 = 330例；年龄在3至25岁之间）。根据1959年的格吕利希和派尔图谱，从左手和手腕的X光片评估骨骼。分别对男性和女性的每个阶段使用概率分析计算骨骼阶段达到的中位年龄。
呈现了男性和女性指骨、掌骨、腕骨以及桡骨和尺骨阶段的成熟度数据。所有阶段女性的中位年龄均早于男性。这些结果在很大程度上早于先前发表的研究结果，或者在能够计算的情况下早于先前的结果。
指骨、掌骨、腕骨以及桡骨和尺骨远端骨骺的个体成熟阶段的这些结果，有助于评估苏丹成长中个体的成熟度。
