Elbow injuries are common in sports that involve throwing, overhead activity, and upper extremity weight-bearing, including baseball, volleyball, football, javelin throwing, and gymnastics. Although acute injuries of the elbow are somewhat common in pediatric patients, overuse injuries in youth athletes are very prevalent. Elbow pain in baseball players aged 9 to 12 years has been found to rang...

There are only a few reported cases in the literature of pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) involving the elbow. Even more rare is its occurrence in the pediatric population as this condition mainly affects young adults. We report a unique case of an 8 year old girl presenting with diffuse form of PVNS of the elbow. The diagnosis is often not considered by clinical history and plain films ...

Motor impairments following unilateral brain injuries may be related to changes in the corpus callosum. The purpose of this study was to determine if the corpus callosum is impacted differently in pediatric versus adult hemiplegia. Diffusion tensor imaging was completed on 41 participants (11 pediatric hemiplegia, 10 adult hemiplegia, 10 pediatric control and 10 adult control). Fractional aniso...

Introduction Dislocations of elbow constitute about 3-6% of all injuries occurring around elbow in children. Posterior dislocations are the most common type, whereas other types of dislocations, especially lateral dislocation in a child are extremely rare. Case Report A 9-year-old boy with a history of trauma presented with complaints of pain, swelling, and difficulty to move his left elbow. ...

BACKGROUND Elbow fractures are one of the most common traumatic fractures in the pediatric population. Since severe complications may occur, appropriate diagnosis and treatment are imperative when dealing with this type of fracture. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology of elbow fracture in children admitted in Alzahra hospital, Isfahan, IR Iran over a one year per...

BACKGROUND Considering the importance of an early diagnosis and proper decision-making in regards to the treatment of pediatric distal radius and elbow fractures, this study examines emergency medicine specialists' accuracy in the diagnosis and treatment of these patients. METHODS From 2012 and 2013, children less than 14 years old who were referred to an academic hospital emergency departmen...

Intra-articular entrapment of the median nerve following reduction of a pediatric posterior elbow dislocation is a rare complication but has been reported in the literature.This article describes a case of a 7-year-old girl who sustained a posterior elbow dislocation associated with a medial epicondyle fracture and the subsequent intraosseous entrapment of her median nerve. The entrapment is be...