Anne-MarieEverytime my son has a bone age, the bones in his hands show several different ages. At first the range was no more than 6 month apart. Then some years later 4 years apart. I don’t think it is uncommon to have six month differences, and generally the range between age should not be any MORE than than 6 months. However, when it exceeds this, you really need to take the oldest age given on a scan and go with it to be honest. It will be accurate give or take a difference of 6 months only, and if your child has bone ages showing anywhere of 11 years at aged 7 years, I would really take that scan seriously and look at what is happening. Some bones in the hand develop at different rates to others or should I say before others.
Its also a good idea to stick with the same radiology person every time they do a scan as different radilogisist read the scans differently and it leads to too much confusion which if this delays adequate treatment is with a child for life.