Background Radial neck fractures in children are rare injuries, representing 1 to 5% of all elbow pediatric fractures. Most them non-displaced or slightly displaced and treated conservatively. Severely angulated radial (Judet type III IV O’Brien fractures) requires surgical treatment.
 Objective To study the clinical radiological outcomes following closed open reduction percutaneous intram...

Objective: To compare outcome of patients with supracondylar fractures of humerus treated by cross K-wires and lateral entry K-wires in children. Patients and methods: It is a randomized controlled trial study, conducted at Department of Orthopedic surgery, Shaikh Zayed Hospital/PGMI Lahore, during period of 8 months (June 2011 to Feb. 2012). Total 200 cases were included in the study (divided ...

OBJECTIVE New locked plate devices offer theoretical advantages for the treatment of supracondylar femur fractures associated with a total knee arthroplasty (TKA). These devices also can be inserted with relative ease by using minimally invasive techniques, provide a fixed angle construct, and improve fixation in osteoporotic bone. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the results and compl...

INTRODUCTION Supracondylar fractures of the humerus represent a current concern in the child's and adolescent's osteo-articular pathology. Even though orthopedic reductions are made correctly, fractures can become displaced when managed only by cast immobilization and complications may arise. The most frequent complications encountered in "Prof. Dr. Alexandru Pesamosca" Clinique, Bucharest, Rom...

Introduction: Supracondylar fracture humerus is one of the commonest fractures suffered in children accounting 50 to 70% around elbow children. Complications malunion or growth deformities into cubitus varus valgus necessitates accurate reduction and union along with maintaining normal range motion. Closed splintage plasters fail achieve these goals often, so percutaneous pinning k wires from l...

A "Fishtail deformity" is one of the well-known complications following pediatric lateral condyle or supracondylar fractures of the humerus. We herein report a case of medial condyle fracture (Kilfoyle type III) in an 11-year-old boy. He had a transient "fishtail deformity" of the trochlear groove after open reduction and internal fixation. As occurred in the current case, the bone remodeling a...

Open supracondylar fractures of the humerus are rare in children, and the treatment strategy for these fractures is yet to be standardized. We present the case of an 8-year-old boy with open supracondylar humerus fracture that was managed with an external wrist fixator. A good clinical outcome was achieved in this case, without the development of any complications over a 6-month follow-up period.

We treated 22 children with a supracondylar fracture of the humerus and an ipsilateral fracture of the forearm by closed reduction and percutaneous fixation. There were four Gartland type-II and 18 Gartland type-III supracondylar fractures of the humerus. There were fractures of both bones of the forearm in 16 and of the radius in six. Both the supracondylar and the distal forearm fractures wer...

We examined differences in the rate of open reduction, operating time, length of hospital stay and outcome between two groups of children with displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus who underwent surgery either within 12 hours of the injury or later. There were 77 children with type-3 supracondylar fractures. Of these, in 43 the fracture was reduced and pinned within 12 hours and in 3...