38 articles in this issue
Mehmet Emre Baki,Atilla Abdioglu,Hafiz Aydin,Servet Kerimoglu,Celal Baki
We treated 42 hips with symptomatic acetabular dysplasia using triple pelvic osteotomy. The mean age of the patients was 20.7 years (12–47). The median follow-up was 50.3 months. The average Harris hip score improved from 74 to 92 points. Significant impr... see more
Marion Rapp
Treatment of pathological fractures caused by juvenile or aneurysmal bone cysts (JBC/ABC) should be a single approach with a high success and low complication rate. This study evaluates the day by day treatment concepts. Methods: Children (<15ys) ... see more
Reyaz Ahmad Dar,Mubashir Rashid,Mohammad Rafiq Bhat,Mohammad Yaseen,Aabid Ashraf,Altaf Ahmad Kawoosa
From the last two decades Ponseti method has replaced soft tissue releases as the gold standard in the management of idiopathic clubfoot. The purpose of this study was to retrospectively analyse various attributes of the patients associated with poor outc... see more
Pierre-Louis Docquier
Aneurysmal bone cystic (ABC) lesions can be primary or secondary (to a trauma or a pre-existing benign or malignant tumour). Specific translocations of the USP6 gene are reported in about 70% of primary but never in secondary ABC lesions.We report two cas... see more
Yong-tao Zhang
Conclusion: Flexible intramedullary nail had greater advantages for the treatment of femoral fractures in children aged 5-15 years, compared to external fixation based on current meta-analysis. The outcomes will ultimately require a rigorous and adequatel... see more
Simon Vandergugten
Purpose: to evaluate the risk factors for additional surgery after closed reduction of hip developmental dislocationMethods: closed reduction for developmental hip dislocation was performed on 72 patients, with a total of 82 hips. All were irreducible hip... see more
Surjit LIDDER,Megan THOMAS,Ankit DESAI,Andrew SKYRME,Andrew ARMITAGE,Samuel RAJARATNAM
Purpose:Osteochondral fractures in skeletally immature patients are rare. A retrospective case series is reported looking at the use of Omnitech compression screws for these injuries. Method:Nine patients with a mean age of 14 were included in... see more
Omer ERSEN,Serkan Bilgic,Kenan Koca,Tolga Ege,Erbil Oguz,Ahmet Burak Bilekli
Although there are several conservative treatment options only bracing found effective in preventing curve progression and subsequent need for surgery. The objective of this study is to compare the results of SpineCor brace and rigid brace in adolescent i... see more
Mehmet Bulent Balioglu,Yunus Atici,Akif Albayrak,Deniz Kargin,Yunus Emre Akman,Mehmet Akif Kaygusuz
The benefits and drawbacks of growth friendly spinal instrumentation have been reported as a result of developments in the treatment of early-onset scoliosis. Seventeen patients who underwent growth friendly spinal instrumentation surgery with a minimum 2... see more
Kryspin Niedzielski,Pawel Flont,Marcin Domzalski,Zbigniew Lipczyk,Krzysztof Malecki
IntroductionEpiphysiodesis has become one of the most popular methods in the treatment of leg length discrepancy (LLD) due to its surgical simplicity, short hospitalization time, and a low risk of complications.Patients and MethodsA retrospective analysis... see more
Baris Özkul,Selçuk mehmet Saygili,Engin Çetinkaya,Ali Çagri Tekin,Fatih Arslanoglu,Ilhan A Bayhan,Bilal Demir
Several clinical and radiological factors can be prognostic in the development of angular deformity following physeal injuries of the distal tibia. One of the radiological parameters, premature physeal closure (PPC), can be detected during postoperative f... see more
di lu,Shao-Yu Zhu,Jie Yang,Hua Chen,Liao-Jun Sun
The purpose was to compare the outcomes of displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures in older children treated with poking reduction and cannulated screws fixation or with plates fixation using a sinus tarsi approach. 50 patients were randomised to op... see more
Prateek Behera,Ankit khurana,balaji saibaba,Sameer Aggarwal
Osteopetrosis is a rare hereditary condition which may have autosomal recessive or autosomal dominant inheritance. Patients tend to present most commonly with fractures but involvement of cranial nerves and hematopoetic system is not uncommon. In fact, pa... see more
SELCUK FRIK
In daily clinical practice most orthopedic surgeon suffer doubt about treatment of rare injuries. This study aims enlighten management of birth related femoral subtrochanteric fractures of neonates and remark difficult caesarian breech deliveries as a ris... see more
ALI ALHEFZI
v ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to evaluate both the anatomical and functional consequence that follow our treatment protocols.v MethodsA retrospective analysis of a series containing 50 children in Strasbourg University Hospital whom had ... see more
Sybille Castelein,Pierre-Louis Docquier
The present study aims to assess the incidence of complications related to bone lengthening procedures and to identify the risk factors that may predict these complications. We retrospectively studied 71 lengthening procedures in 53 patients (mean age 14.... see more
mohammed anter meselhy
eleven adolescent tibia vara were evaluated for deformity, the analysis was performed on full-length standing anteroposterior radiographs of both lower extremities and lateral radiographs of the involved tibia.Proximal tibial osteotomy was per... see more
John Mcfarlane,Jan Keiper,Nigel Kiely
The treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in children remains controversial, we describe the clinical and radiological outcomes of 47 hips in 43 children treated with open surgery by one surgeon between 2004 and 2008 for DDH.The mean... see more
Mohamed AM Eid
Elimination of narrow arc of pathologic loading due to impingement is the main advantage of the proposed surgical technique. Other advantages include increased abductor lever arm and restoration of hip joint range of motion with normalization of the loadi... see more
Xiaolong Li,Lian Xu,Qingquan Kong
Purpose: To describe our experience in treating pediatric patients with high-grade spondylolisthesis by reduction and fusion surgery, and to determine the most appropriate range of fusion-segment for high-grade spondylolisthesis.Methods: A total of 12 pat... see more
Robert W Jordan,Alex Aquilina,Daniel J Westacott,Stephen J Cooke
The purpose of the study was to compare the use of ketamine sedation and general anaesthesia for manipulation of paediatric wrist and forearm fractures. A retrospective analysis was performed of patients under 16 years treated at our centre between Octobe... see more
Nikola Bojovic,Maja Raicevic,Dragoljub Zivanovic,Sinisa Ducic
Aneurysmal bone cysts (ABC) are rare and they represent 1- 1.4 % of all primary bone tumors. ABC of cuboid bone are extremely rare, especially in children a very few cases have been reported in literature since 1967. We present a c... see more
rahul anshuman,Mahipal Singh,Anil Kumar Jain,Nikhil Verma,Rajesh Arora
Kubilay Beng,Timur Yildirim,Ilhan A. Bayhan,Evren Akpinar,Cagri Ozcan,Mehmet Firat Yagmurlu
This retrospective study compared the results of one-stage surgery of unilateral and bilateral Tönnis grade 4 hips (high dislocation in developmental hip dysplasia, DDH): 41 hips, 30 patients. Mean follow-up was 56 months. Pelvic radiographs were evaluate... see more
Viktor Zsolt Kovari
In this case report clinical and technical lessons including seven years follow up learned from a flexion-distraction, highly unstable cervical spine injury causing a complete separation of C6-7 cervical segment with qaudriparesis in a 23 –month-old boy, ... see more
Laura Corominas,Julia Sanpera,Enrique Rodriguez de la Rubia
Fractures of the capitellum are rare injures of the elbow rarely seen in adolescents.We report a case of a 14 year-old boy who sustained a bilateral Hahn-Steinthal type fracture of his capitelum humeri. To our knowledge, such bilateral injury has not been... see more
Ninoslav N Begovic,Zoran Paunovic,Zarko Djuraskovic,Ljubomir Lazovic,Tanja Mijovic,Srdjan Babic
We compared results of lateral pinning procedure with crossed pinning, closed reduction, and open reduction. A retrospective review of 184 patients with displaced supracondylar humeral fractures. All patients had a minimum of 2 years follow-up (range 36-9... see more
stanley jones
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to report our experience of fractures in children riding Hoverboards.MethodsWe undertook a prospective review of all children attending our hospital who sustained fractures whilst riding a Hoverboard. Data such as patie... see more
ELHUSEIN ELGENGEHY,Mohamed Eid,Mohamed Eid
Introduction Plantar Pressure mapping has been introduced as a new modality for assessment of the height of the medial longitudinal arch of the foot. Among the most commonly used methods for such assessment are the radiographic measureme... see more
Manoj Kumar Rajak,Rajesh Thakur,Anil Choudhary,Indranil Bhaduri,Sachin Kumar
Keywords: Pediatric femoral diaphyseal fractures, Titanium elastic nail system.
Ignacio Sanpera
The purpose was to evaluate the use of preoperative autologous blood donation (PABD) for surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). The surgical records of 37 patients Lenke type 1 AIS were reviewed. Patients were divided according ... see more
dheidan alshammari
A 16-year-old boy suffered a salter III fracture of the upper tibia following a motorcycle accident. Except for well localized knee pain, the patient did not have any other symptoms. Repeated clinical examination did not find any absent peripheral pulses.... see more
Giovanni Frongia
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ANIL AGARWAL,neeraj gupta,madhusudan mishra,nargesh agrawal,deepak kumar
The purpose of our study was to retrospectively review the presentation, healing response and functional results of 8 such cases in children.The patients were evaluated for pain, deformity, range of motion, limb length discrepancy (if any) and recurrence.... see more
Vasileios KAILIS
Fast and good fracture healing is generally encountered in pediatric traumatology with rare re- fractures .Diaphysis fractures of both bones of the forearm are an exception with 4-26% of re-fractures in the 6 months following the fracture. Dia... see more
Wen-Xin Liu,Jin-Zhong Zhao,Xiao-Qiao Huangfu,Yao-Hua He,Xing-Guang Yang
This systematic review assessed the prevalence of bilateral discoid lateral meniscus (BDLM) as well as its subtypes, among patients with symptomatic discoid lateral menisci (DLM), reported in the current literature. Medline, Cochrane, EMBASE, and Google S... see more
The indications for Kirschner wiring, the technique of wiring, type of cast immobilization, period of immobilization and complications of K wires are unclear. We conducted a systematic review of the literature on Kirschner wiring of distal radius fr... see more
Alessio Biazzo,Massimiliano De Paolis
Osteosarcoma is a malignant bone tumor composed of mesenchymal cells producing osteoid and immature bone. Osteosarcoma is the most frequent primary malignant bone tumor, if we excluded myeloma, a haematologic disease.The incidence of osteosarcoma is 2–3/m... see more