Yermak T. Osteopenia syndrome in children wish idiopathic scoliosis

137 children with scoliotic disease. Verification of osteopenia syndrome in children with scoliosis on the basis of complex investigation indicators such as bone mineralisation, metabolism of main organic and mineral components of connective tissue and to explain the prognostic value of osteopenia syndrome to evaluate the course of the disease. Clinical, radiological, densitometry /вone densitometr NK 364/, biochemical methods. For the first time, studies were carried out regarding mineral density using monophoton densitometry in random selection of children and adolescents which, revealed a variety of parameters which were age and sex dependent. For the first time it has been established the freguency and character of osteopenia in children with scoliosis and their relationship with the age of the patient, and stage of the disease. It's also been established the influence of osteopenia on the course of scoliotic disease and described the osteopenia syndrome which have a prognostic value in such a di