ESPE Abstracts

Third generation AIs have been repurposed as an off-label treatment in boys and girls, as they can retard closure of the epiphysial plate expanding the period of growth. Assessment of digital hand X-rays has introduced new follow-up indexes of bone health: Bone Health Index (BHI) from DICOM files describes bone mass as a function of cortical thickness, and Metacarpal Index (MCI) from digitized files expresses the cortical thickness standardized for the outer bone diameter at t...