Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research Research article BioMed Central Open Access Correlation and comparison of Risser sign versus bone age determination (TW3) between children with and without scoliosis in Korean population Hitesh N Modi, Chetna H Modi, Seung Woo Suh*, Jae-Hyuk Yang and JaeYoung Hong Address: Scoliosis Research Institute, Department of Orthopedics, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea Email: Hitesh N Modi - hnm7678@; Chetna H Modi - chetna_yashvi@; Seung Woo Suh* - spine@; JaeHyuk Yang - gurospine@; Jae-Young Hong - gpstylep@ * Corresponding author Published: 20 September 2009 Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2009, 4:36 doi: Received: 29 March 2009 Accepted: 20 September 2009 This article. | Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research BioMed Central Research article Correlation and comparison of Risser sign versus bone age determination TW3 between children with and without scoliosis in Korean population Hitesh N Modi Chetna H Modi Seung Woo Suh Jae-Hyuk Yang and Jae-Young Hong Address Scoliosis Research Institute Department of Orthopedics Korea University Guro Hospital Seoul Korea Email Hitesh N Modi - hnm7678@ Chetna H Modi - chetna_yashvi@ Seung Woo Suh - spine@ Jae-Hyuk Yang - gurospine@ Jae-Young Hong - gpstylep@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 20 September 2009 Received 29 March 2009 Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2009 4 36 doi 1749-799X-4-36 Accepted 20 September 2009 This article is available from http content 4 1 36 2009 Modi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background Most studies comparing the Risser staging for skeletal maturity are representing the American or European standards which are not always applicable to Asian population who have relatively less height and body mass. There is no article available that compares the Risser sign and bone age correlation between patients with idiopathic scoliosis and patients without scoliosis. Materials and methods To analyze and compare the skeletal age with the Risser sign between scoliosis and non-scoliosis group a cross-sectional study was done in 418 scoliosis untreated bracing or surgically and 256 non-scoliosis children of Korean origin. Relationship was found in both groups using Pearson correlation test. Results In scoliosis group .
