We studied 70 consecutive patients with
A study of spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis in 142 children and
Aims. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of maturity status at the time of surgery on final spinal height in patients with an
We have measured the increase in height and width of the vertebral bodies and expressed them as percentages of the total growth in children aged 10 to 17 years. The first group, 10 boys and 10 girls, each had a single thoracic
Mechanical abnormalities of the patellofemoral joint are among the many causes that have been suggested for
We report the treatment in 17 patients of 27 angular deformities of the long bones by progressive opening-wedge osteotomy. The technique consists of percutaneous osteotomy and progressive angular correction using a modified Wagner distractor. Ten patients (20 bone segments) had
One hundred and sixty-seven patients with
Anterior knee pain in
The accurate assessment of skeletal maturity
is essential in the management of orthopaedic conditions in the growing
child. In order to identify the time of peak height velocity (PHV)
in
A self-control ratio, the spine-pelvis index
(SPI), was proposed for the assessment of patients with
Aims. A total of 30 patients with thoracolumbar/lumbar
We continued a prospective longitudinal follow-up
study of 53 remaining patients who underwent open total meniscectomy
as
A total of 60 children and
Low bone mass and osteopenia have been described in the axial and peripheral skeleton of patients with
There is no published literature detailing the demographics of paediatric amputations in the United Kingdom. We performed this review of children and
1. The etiology of hallux rigidus has been studied by an examination of ten
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to compare the appearance of the spine in 20
Stature and its components were examined in 143 girls aged 11 to 15 years with
Joint laxity was quantified by measuring the distance from the thumb tip to the forearm during passive apposition in 500 normal Southern Chinese women. Joint laxity was found to have a normal distribution throughout the population and to decrease with age. When 109 Chinese girls with idiopathic
We reviewed 212 consecutive patients with adolescent
idiopathic scoliosis who underwent posterior spinal arthrodesis
using all pedicle screw instrumentation in terms of clinical, radiological
and Scoliosis Research Society (SRS)-22 outcomes. In Group 1 (51
patients), the correction was performed over two rods using bilateral
segmental pedicle screws. In Group 2 (161 patients), the correction
was performed over one rod using unilateral segmental pedicle screws
with the second. rod providing stability of the construct
through two-level screw fixation at proximal and distal ends. The
mean age at surgery was
14.8 years in both groups. Comparison between groups showed no significant
differences with regard to age and Risser grade at surgery, pre-
and post-operative scoliosis angle, coronal Cobb correction, length
of hospital stay and SRS scores. Correction of upper thoracic curves
was significantly better in Group 1 (p = 0.02). Increased surgical time
and intra-operative blood loss was recorded in Group 1 (p <
0.001
and p = 0.04, respectively). The implant cost was reduced by mean
35% in Group 2 due to the lesser number of pedicle screws. Unilateral and bilateral pedicle screw techniques have both achieved
excellent deformity correction in