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Authors - George El Rassi, MD Saint George University Hospital- Achrafieh-lebanon
J. Richard Bowen, MD Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children Wilmington, DE 19803-3607
The goals of this chapter are to describe the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of bipartite patella. Bipartite patella results from failure of fusion of an accessory ossification center which...

* 5% of meniscal injuries involve patients <15 years of age
* Both menisci are equally vulnerable to injury
* Slightly higher incidence of lateral meniscal tears in youths because of high numbers of discoid menisci in the earlier...

Authors - George El Rassi, MD Saint George University Hospital- Achrafieh-lebanon Lebanon
J. Richard Bowen, MD Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children Wilmington, DE 19803-3607
The purposes of this chapter are to describe the etiology, classification, clinical manifestation, diagnosis and treatment of juvenile osteochondrtis dissecans of the knee.

Knee Flexion Contractures: Soft Tissue Correction With Monolateral External Fixation from Journal of the Southern Orthopedic Association James F. Mooney III, MD, L. Andrew Koman, MD, Winston-Salem, NC Abstract We assessed the efficacy of progressive soft tissue distraction using monolateral external fixation in the management of severe knee flexion contractures. We prospectively evaluated 10...

Congenital Knee Dislocation

Patellar Dislocations, The Alfred I. duPont Institute

Archive Copy 2003: Systematic Description of the syndrome. From Pediatric Database 1994

Osgood-Schlatter's Disease