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JON BLOCK, PHD
Department of Radiology University of California San Francisco, CA 94143

Am J Dis Child. 1988;142(9):919.

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Sir.—In a recent reply letter in the May 1988 issue of AJDC, Drs Specker and Tsang¹ claimed that Dr Chesney and I provided spurious data regarding the radial bone mineral content of children at age 6 years.² In fact, the values we provided were correct in grams per centimeter as opposed to the values in grams reported by Drs Specker and Tsang in their reply letter. By way of clarification, the values reported by Mazess and Cameron² were 0.486 g/cm and 0.475 g/cm for male and female children, respectively, whereas the value at age 6 years as reported by Specker et al³ in their original report was 0.356 g/cm. These are the values reported in our previous letter. It is unfortunate that Drs Specker and Tsang misread the table provided in the Mazess and Cameron article. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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