Showing posts with label Pediatrics Orthopaedics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pediatrics Orthopaedics. Show all posts

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Nursemaid's elbow~


  • sudden traction
  • radial head sublaxation

Osgood-Schlatter disease~


  • tibial tubercle apophyseal traction injury
  • rupture of the growth plate at the tibial tuberosity
  • tibial tubercle hurt
  • caused by overuse

Baker's cyst~


  • popliteal cyst
  • non-pulsatile swelling
  • posterior aspect of the knee
  • Ddx - lipoma, aneurysm, neuroma & rarely tumor

Pes planus~


  • flat feet

Scoliosis~



  • physical examination - Adams test (forward bending)

SCFE~


  • Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (also known as "Slipped upper femoral epiphysis")
  • referring to a fracture through the physis (the growth plate), which results in slippage of the overlying epiphysis
  • a/w obesity, deficient gonadal development & hypothyroidism

DDH~


  • developmental dysplasia of the hip
  • patients who are born with dislocation or instability of the hip, which may then result in hip dysplasia

Legg-Calve-Perthes~



  • avascular necrosis of femoral head
  • X-ray - wide articular surface, then necrosis - flattened femoral head - later becomes spherical

Talipes~