Pediatric and Adolescent Knee Surgery

Description

Written by experts from New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery, this new resource gives you the tools you need to provide comprehensive surgical care to the increasing number of children and adolescents with knee injuries. Hundreds of step-by-step illustrations guide you through each procedure and clearly depict the surgical techniques you’re most likely to perform. Highly detailed and easy to use, this reference provides authoritative, vibrantly illustrated guidance on how best to manage your younger patients throughout their years of growth.

Pediatric and Adolescent Knee Surgery offers:

• Comprehensive coverage of the increasing numbers of pediatric and adolescent knee injuries commonly seen by orthopaedic surgeons.
• Step-by-step guidance on various methods of treating ACL injuries, patellofemoral instability, osteochondritis dessicans, discoid meniscus, epiphyseal injury and adolescent fractures, and growth plate surgery.
• More than 330 full-color illustrations that clearly depict the details of each procedure
• A concise and relevant review of anatomy, imaging, and epidemiology.
• Authoritative coverage of the specific issues in children and adults that require a different approach from adult patients

Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:

• Complete content with enhanced navigation
• Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
• Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation
• Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
• Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues
• Quick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use

Table Of Contents

1 Introduction

Section 1 ACL Injury
2 Epidemiology Pediatric and Adolescent Knee ACL Injury
3 Functional Anatomy and Biomechanics
4 Gender Specific Issues & ACL
5 Historical Approach: Non-Operative
6 Technique: Modified McIntosh
7 Technique: Anderson Technique
8 Technique: All-Epiphyseal Sockets
9 Technique: Partial Transphyseal (Hybrid)
10 Technique: Complete Transphyseal Hamstring Autograft
11 Brief overview of surgical ACL options… algorithm based on age
12 Pediatric and Adolescent Post-ACL Rehabilitation
13 Controversies in Return to Play
14 ACL Prevention programs

Section 2 Patellofemoral Instability
15 Overview Epidemiology, Pathomechanics, Assessment
16 Technique: Quad Tendon MPFL
17 Technique: Hamstring MPFL
18 Technique: Distal Realignment Pediatric
19 Technique: Distal Realignment Tibial tubercle osteotomy
20 Post-operative Rehabilitation

Section 3 Osteochondritis Dissecans
21 Overview Epidemiology, Etiology, Classification, Assessment
22 OCD Drilling Transarticular
23 Retrograde
24 Technique: ORIF Compression Metal Fixation
25 Technique: ORIF Biodegradeable Fixation
26 Oats / Allograft
27 Technique: Frontiers of Cartilage Restoration

Section 4 Discoid Meniscus
28 Overview Epidemiology, Classification, Assessment
29 Technique: Arthroscopic Repair & Saucerization
30 Meniscal Transplant in the Adolescent

Section 5 Pediatric and Adolescent Knee Fractures
31 Tibial Tubercle Fractures
32 "Tibial Spine/ACL Avulsion Fractures Overview
Technique Screw"
33 "Tibial Spine/ACL Avulsion Fractures Overview
Technique Suture "
34 Salter-Harris Distal Femur and Proximal Tibia Fractures
35 Patella Sleeve Fracture

Section 6 Physis
36 Diagnostic Imaging
37 Growth Plate Anatomy
38 Assessment of Growth Remaining
39 Surgical Treatment of Growth Arrest
40 Implant Mediated Guided Growth for Genu Valgum and Genu Varum