LATERAL DISTAL FEMUR

to the Lateral Distal Femur (LDF) DXA website. The purpose of this site is to serve as the resource for anyone interested in learning more about the LDF as a site to measure by DXA for assessment of bone density. On these pages you can learn about the history of the LDF, how to acquire and analyze the LDF, what good scans look like, technical issues of the scanning technique, reporting results and clinical applications... Many pediatric facilities are routinely using the LDF as a part of their clinical scanning, particularly those centers serving children with physical disabilities; others use the LDF for research purposes only. For either application, the LDF DXA is easily obtained on most patients... Measuring and interpreting the bone density of children presents the clinician with challenges because children's bones are small and they are growing. This presents particular technical challenges in both the accuracy of measurement and interpretation of results. Official positions on..