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The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

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How to Refer a Child to a Pediatrician

A severely delayed bone age and a poor growth rate can point to issues like hypothyroidism, celiac disease or growth hormone deficiency. Parents call it all kinds of different things. It's actually called a bone age. And what we're looking at in that x-ray is not how big is the hand or do the bones look weird? We're looking at the growth plates. What growth plates are are little basically lines of cartilage because baby's hands are not made of mostly bone.

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