Knee pain in children and adolescents is one of the most prevalent complaints in a pediatric practice, accounting for at least a third of musculoskeletal complaints. Accurate diagnosis requires an…
Hip pain in the adolescent athlete is a common source of functional impairment and can limit athletic performance. In the past, many intra- and extra-articular hip abnormalities went unrecognized and…
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) involves displacement of the proximal femoral metaphysis relative to a fixed epiphysis, usually during a period of rapid growth and unique physeal susceptibility. Patients have…
Transient synovitis, septic hip, and Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease are common conditions in children. Distinguishing between these disorders can be a diagnostic challenge. Similar presentations, in an age group difficult to examine,…
Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) encompasses a spectrum of physical and imaging findings. The child’s hip will not develop normally if it remains unstable and anatomically abnormal by walking…
Bonita F. Stanton, MD, Consulting Editor Among the many important decisions that general pediatricians must make on a daily basis are those depending on the recognition of conditions requiring timely…
P. Christopher Cook, MD, FRCS(C), Editor It has been a great pleasure to help compile this Pediatric Orthopedic issue of the Pediatric Clinics of North America . Pediatric orthopedics has…
Despite the enormously important and gratifying advances in cancer treatment outcomes for children with cancer, cancer remains the biggest cause of death from disease in children. Because the etiology and…
Treatment for childhood cancer with chemotherapy, radiation and/or hematopoietic cell transplant can result in adverse sequelae that may not become evident for many years. A clear understanding of the association…
Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) represents the most common and effective form of immunotherapy for childhood malignancies. The role of the graft-versus-leukemia effect in allogeneic HCT has been well established in…
