Traumatic Hip Dislocations in Children and Adolescents: Pitfalls and Complications

J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 17, No 1, January 2009 José A. Herrera-Soto, MD and Charles T. Price, MD Traumatic hip dislocation is an uncommon injury in children. Lack of familiarity with management of the treating physician may lead to complications. Hip dislocation in young children can occur with minor trauma; in adolescents, greater […]

Paediatric distal radial fracture manipulation: multicentre analysis of process times

Emergency Medicine Journal 26 (1), 41-2 (Jan 2009) Mitchell L, Archer E, Middleton S, Maclean A, Jones L, Benger J, Lloyd G; BACKGROUND: Children with simple radial fractures requiring manipulation are conventionally admitted for manipulation under general anaesthesia. On the assumption that children (and their parents) wish to spend as little time in hospital as […]

Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip

Journal of Pediatric Health Care Volume 22, Number 5, 2008 Polina Gelfer, MD, FAAP; Kathleen A. Kennedy, MD, MPH Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a spectrum of anatomical abnormalities of the hip joint in which the femoral head has an abnormal relationship to the acetabulum. The true incidence of DDH can only be […]

Transphyseal reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament in prepubescent children

J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2008 Oct;90(10):1317-22. Liddle AD, Imbuldeniya AM, Hunt DM. We present the results of 17 children of Tanner stage 1 or 2 who underwent reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament between 1999 and 2006 using a transphyseal procedure, employing an ipsilateral four-strand hamstring graft. The mean age of the children was […]

Large Osteochondral Fractures of the Lateral Femoral Condyle in the Adolescent: Outcome of Bioabsorbable Pin Fixation

NULL The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2008;90:1473-1478. Stewart J. Walsh, MD1, Matthew J. Boyle, MD1 and Vicki Morganti, MD2 Background: Large osteochondral fractures of the lateral femoral condyle of the knee in adolescent patients can be diagnostically and therapeutically challenging. Historically, management has involved removal of the fragment, leaving a large area […]

Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Diagnosis and Treatment

NULL J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 16, No 6, June 2008 Gheorghe Burnei, MD, PhD, Costel Vlad, MD, Ileana Georgescu, MD, Traian Stefan Gavriliu, MD and Daniela Dan, MD Osteogenesis imperfecta is a heritable disorder characterized by extremely fragile bones, blue sclerae, dentinogenesis imperfecta, hearing loss, and scoliosis. In 1979, Sillence classified the condition […]

Perthes’ or Perthes’ resembling disease in 13-month-old boy

NULL J Pediatr Orthop B. 2008 May;17(3):120-4. Maus U, Andereya S, Ihme N, Gravius S, Niedhart C, Ohnsorge JA, Niethard FU. Onset of Perthes’ disease is reported frequently from the age of 2 years. Latest publications showed cases with onset of this disease in infancy at ages of 17 and 18 months. We report the […]

Fijación del clavo intramedular para fracturas inestables de antebrazo en niños.

Murat Altay, a, , Cem Nuri Aktekina, Bülent Ozkurta, Barış Birincia, Akif Muhtar Ozturka and A. Yalçın Tabaka aNumune Education and Research Hospital, Department of 5th Orthopaedics Clinic, Ankara, Turkey Summary Displaced fractures of the diaphyseal forearm in children are often treated conservatively, but there is relatively high incidence of redisplacement, malunion and consequent limitation […]

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