Toddler's fracture.

Toddler's fracture.

Management of Toddler's Fractures in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate current practice in treatment of toddler's fractures, as well as subsequent healthcare utilization and complications. METHODS Retrospective cohort study of children age 9 months to 3 years with a radiographically evident toddler's fracture diagnosed at a single academic pediatric emergency department (PED) from January 2008 to December 2012. Data collected included init...

Fractures of the calcaneus

Objectives 1. Describe the anatomy of the calcaneus; including the articular facets and their orientation, the sustentaculum tali, and the apophysis 2. Describe the ossification of the calcaneus, and differences between the immature and adult calcaneus 3. Describe a classification system of calcaneal fractures useful for assessing such fractures in the immature foot 4. Discuss the imaging of a ...

Tibial torus and toddler's fractures misdiagnosed as transient synovitis: a case series

INTRODUCTION The high incidence of transient synovitis in early childhood makes it the first suspected pathology in a limping child. Trauma, which has long been regarded as a causative factor for transient synovitis, may be underestimated in a non-cooperative toddler.After excluding most serious conditions, such as septic arthritis, a speculative diagnosis of transient synovitis can be made, an...

Babies Growing up

This book is a positive encyclopaedia of child management from the moment of conception to the end of the nursery period. What to prepare for the confinement, care of the toddler's feet, Punishment and discipline, play and toys, baby's laundry, the toddler's spiritual development?Nurse McKay deals with all these and a host of other subjects. She combines the practical wisdom ?f the old-fashione...