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Archive Copy: - 1999 Annual Meeting Scientific Program. Femoral Fractures in Children and Adolescents: Consensus and Controversy
Moderator(s): James H. Beaty, MD, Memphis, TN Monday, February 8, 1999 SYMPOSIUM
James R Kasser, MD, Boston, MA Scott J Mubarak, MD, San Diego, CA Charles Turner Price, MD, Orlando, FL William W Robertson...

POSNA Core Curriculum

Robert Shapiro Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Diagnosing physical child abuse: the way forward M A Barber, J R Sibert Department of Child Health, University of Wales College of Medicine, Academic Centre, Llandough Hospital, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan CF64 2XX, UK Accepted 22 March 2000 In this article, we will review the evidence we have on the diagnosis of...

POLICY STATEMENT PEDIATRICS Vol. 105 No. 6 June 2000, pp. 1345-1348 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: Diagnostic Imaging of Child Abuse Section on Radiology ABSTRACT The role of imaging in cases of child abuse is to identify the extent of physical injury when abuse occurs, as well as...

Femoral neck fractures in the young adult are a different type of fracture than those seen in the elderly. These younger patients have normal bone density. A simple fall is not going to break the femoral neck. These fractures require high energy type injury mechanisms, and greater than 50% of... Expert

Chip Rout: OTA Basic Fracture Course Femoral shaft fractures in children are a little difficult to deal with, especially if you are taking care of them sporadically and especially when they are associated with polytrauma. Expert

Non Accidental Injury (Battered Baby Syndrome) Also known as: Ambroise Tardieu's syndrome Caffey's syndrome II Caffey-Kempe syndrome Silverman syndrome Definition The clinical presentation of child abuse: various injuries to the skeleton, soft tissues, or organs of a child sustained as a result of repeated mistreatment or beating, usually by...

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Wheeless Testbook of Orthopaedics - Discussion: - child abuse occurs most often under the age of 3 years; - when child abuse goes unrecognized, the mortality rate may be as high as 5 %; - differential dx: ...

Also discusses whether to remove flexible nails from a patient with Osteogenesis Imperfecta

List of topics associated with Paediatric Elbow Injuries
- Distal Humeral Physeal Separation:
- Elbow Dislocation
- Lateral Condyle Fracture
- Medial Condyle Fracture
- Medial Epicondyle Fracture
- Nursemaid's Elbow
- Olecranon Fracture
- Osteochondritis
- Osteochondrosis of Medial Epicondyle
- Radial Neck Fracture
- Supracondylar...

Diagnostic Radiology John Anderson UCSF

Supracondylar Elbow Fractures: Pediatric
Kathryn Cramer MD
OTA Basic Fracture Course Expert

Fracture pattern of accidental aetiology but commonly mistaken for abuse