Neupsy Key

How tall is the child? What is the child’s sitting height? How long is the subischial leg length? How much has the child grown in a single year? What is…

I. Dysplastic II. Isthmic   A. Spondylolysis   B. Isthmus elongation   C. Acute fracture III. Traumatic IV. Degenerative V. Pathologic VI. Iatrogenic According to Wiltse, Newman and Macnab [147, 148] According to…

Fig. 43.1 Demonstration of spinal mobility after T10–L3 VBS 43.1.1 Historical Overview Stapling across physes of the long bones has been accepted as an effective method for treating limb malalignment…

1 Six or more café-au-lait macules more than 5 mm in greatest diameter in prepubertal individuals and more than 15 mm in postpubertal individuals 2 Two or more neurofibromas of…

Fig. 27.1 Lateral radiographs of the thoraco-lumbar spine demonstrating kyphosis progression in a 8 year old child. (a) The deformity measures only 30 degrees at the completion of chemotherapy. Over…

Fig. 50.1 (a, b) A 9-year-old boy with idiopathic EOS treated with dual growing rods. Seven years after beginning treatment, he had a deep wound infection and was treated with…

Short trunk  Brachyolmia spondylodysplasia Short appendicular skeleton  Acromelic (short hand)   Acromelic dysplasia  Mesomelic (short forearm)   Dyschondrosteosis (Leri Weill)  Rhizomelic (short arm)   Achondroplasia and related disorders    Achondroplasia    Hypochondroplasia Short trunk and…

Type of volume depletion deformity Thoracic deficit Mechanism of lung volume loss Examples I. Absent ribs and exotic scoliosis Unilateral thoracic hypoplasia Lung prolapses into the chest with volume loss…

Authors Number of patients Mean initial elongation pre- to post-initial (cm) Mean growth of instrumented area (cm) during treatment Mean total length increase of the spine (cm) T1–S1 increase (cm/year)…

Fig. 31.1 Black: osseous part of the vertebrae. Dark grey: growing structures Light grey: disc structures. (a) The HV to be removed. (b) The surrounding growing structures of the HV…