Roentgenographic assessment of skeletal ages of Asian junior youth football players.

Skeletal age of 50 football players participating in the Asian Junior Youth Tournament was assessed in an attempt to verify their stated chronological age to have a fair competition. Roentgenograms of hand and wrist (Greulich - Pyle standards), ilium and ischium were used for evaluation. More than half of the players had a bone age over the 16 year age limit of the Tournament and 30 percent of them had reached the maximum skeletal maturity of 19 years of age or over. Skeletal age is a reliable and dependable guide for assessing the physical maturity in this age group provided that proper local or international standards are set up.

Pulmonary sequestration: ultrasonographic visualization of feeding artery.

An intralobar pulmonary sequestration was diagnosed by ultrasonography in a child presenting with chronic respiratory infection. Chest radiograph showed multicystic infiltration in the left lung base. This was diagnosed as cystic bronchiectasis and failed to clear up in spite of adequate antibiotic therapy. Ultrasound (real-time) examination suggested pulmonary sequestration, and an aberrant blood supply was demonstrated. Subsequent angiography, surgery and pathological examination of the resected segment confirmed the diagnosis.

Ultrasound diagnosis of Dandy-Walker cyst.

A variety of congenital malformations of the brain can be diagnosed by cranial sonography. Those which alter macroscopic morphology can be recognized and their findings are similar to those seen on computed tomography and pneumoencephalography. The ultrasonic findings in Dandy-Walker cyst are described in this report.