The phrase "age of skeletal maturity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to growth, development, and medical or anatomical discussions, particularly in relation to bone development in children and adolescents.
Example: "The age of skeletal maturity can vary significantly among individuals, affecting their growth patterns and overall health."
Alternatives: "bone maturity age" or "skeletal development age".
Factors requiring consideration include, the size of the joint, the cartilage thickness, the depth and critical size of the defect (critical size implies a defect which will not heal spontaneously without any intervention), the age of skeletal maturity (better results in young patients regardless of treatment type), load distribution of the stifle, affordability and ease of animal handling.
In addition, it is important to consider the age of skeletal maturity and cartilage maturity of the animals chosen, the gastrointestinal physiology of the species, and involvement of all articular tissues that comprise the diarthrodial joint organ.
The logistic regression model showed that the median age of skeletal maturity was, on average, 1.9 SE 0.2 years earlier in girls than boys (p<0.001); and that girls of black as well as white ethnicity matured at the same age (p=0.7), while black boys matured 6.0 SE 3.2 months later than white boys (p=0.06).
Some authors argued that repair at too early of an age may result in improper growth of the chest wall and other complications, so the surgery should be performed during the stage of teenage (close to the age of skeletal maturity) when the operation for correction of PE can be readily accomplished [ 26].
68 The lack of a control group and presence of confounding variables in these studies such as growth, age and degree of skeletal maturity make the results less robust.
4 Bone age, as a measure of skeletal maturity, can also be useful, although a delayed bone age (<2 standard deviations compared to the chronologic age) is nonspecific and associated with many different causes of short stature.
The determination of skeletal maturity, also referred to as bone age assessment (BAA), allows us to estimate children's heights in adulthood and to diagnose and track endocrine disorders or paediatric syndromes, usually based on hand radiographs [ 73].
One Procervulus specimen indicates attainment of skeletal maturity at seven years whereas Cervus elaphus (four to six years) ranges with its timing of skeletal maturity between Megaloceros and Alces (three years) [ 31].
Serum IGF-1 level is a reliable maturation factor for the assessment of skeletal maturity [26].
A wide age range of the population may affect the correlation result because of the inability of skeletal maturity methods to detect changes in skeletal maturity precisely when the subjects are either too young or too old, i.e., too far ahead of or too far past the pubertal growth spurt [15].
Thus, this technique can be used regardless of skeletal maturity.
