Pediatric Orthopedics | Orthopedics and Traumatology

Orthopedics and Traumatology · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Patología del aparato locomotor en desarrollo: desde el cartílago de crecimiento hasta las fracturas específicas del niño, con correlación clínica, diagnóstico por imagen y tratamiento basado en evidencia.

What it covers

1. Pediatric Orthopedics
2. Bone Growth and Cartilage Growth
3. · 1.1 · Types of ossification
4. · 1.2 · The physis (growth plate): functional anatomy and vulnerability
5. · 1.3 · Salter-Harris classification of physeal fractures
6. · 1.4 · Chronology of the appearance of ossification nuclei
7. · 1.5 · Unique biomechanical characteristics of pediatric bone
8. Pediatric Orthopedic Semiology
9. · 2.1 · Gait evaluation
10. · 2.2 · Essential semiological maneuvers in pediatric orthopedics
11. · 2.3 · Imaging in pediatric orthopedics
12. Variants of Normal Development
13. · 3.1 · Physiological genu varus and genu valgus
14. · 3.2 · Physiological internal tibial torsion
15. · 3.3 · Increased femoral anteversion (coxa antetorsa)
16. · 3.4 · Adductus metatarsus
17. Developmental Hip Dysplasia (DDH)
18. · 4.1 · Risk factors
19. · 4.2 · Pathophysiology and pathoanatomy
20. · 4.3 · Diagnosis
21. · 4.4 · Treatment according to age
22. Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
23. · 5.1 · Pathophysiology
24. · 5.2 · Prognostic classifications
25. · 5.3 · Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
26. · 5.4 · Treatment
27. Proximal Femoral Epiphysiolysis (PFE)
28. · 6.1 · Epidemiology and risk factors
29. · 6.2 · Classification
30. · 6.3 · Diagnosis
31. · 6.4 · Treatment
32. Apophyseal Osteochondroses: Osgood-Schlatter and Sinding-Larsen
33. · 7.1 · Osgood-Schlatter disease
34. · 7.2 · Sinding-Larsen-Johansson (SLJ) syndrome
35. · 7.3 · Köhler's disease (navicular ossification)
36. Pathological Genu Varus, Valgus and Torsions of the Lower Limb
37. · 8.1 · Blount's disease (tibia vara)
38. · 8.2 · Pathological genu valgus
39. · 8.3 · External tibial torsion
40. Congenital Clubfoot and Pediatric Flatfoot
41. · 9.1 · Congenital clubfoot (PEVC / Talipes Equinovarus)
42. · 9.2 · Pediatric flat foot
43. Pediatric Scoliosis and Kyphosis
44. · 10.1 · Classification of scoliosis
45. · 10.2 · Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS)
46. · 10.3 · Treatment of the EIA
47. · 10.4 · Scheuermann's kyphosis
48. Skeletal Dysplasias
49. · 11.1 · Concept and classification
50. · 11.2 · Achondroplasia
51. · 11.3 · Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
52. Osteochondrosis and Other Pediatric Avascular Necrosis
53. · 12.1 · Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD)
54. Child-Specific Fractures
55. · 13.1 · Fracture patterns unique to the child
56. · 13.2 · Supracondylar humerus fracture
57. · 13.3 · Fracture of the lateral condyle of the humerus
58. · 13.4 · Femoral shaft fracture
59. · 13.5 Distal radius fracture
60. Pediatric Bone Infections
61. · 14.1 · Pediatric acute hematogenous osteomyelitis (OAH)
62. · 14.2 · Pediatric septic hip arthritis
63. · 14.3 · Final key points