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 Surgeryoffers:

• 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

Contents

۱ Introduction
۲ Epidemiology of Pediatric and Adolescent Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
۳ Functional Anatomy and Biomechanics
۴ Gender-Specific Issues and Anterior Cruciate Ligament
۵ Historical Approach: Nonoperative
۶ Technique: Modified McIntosh
۷ Technique: Anderson Technique
۸ Technique: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: All-Epiphyseal Sockets
۹ Technique: Partial Transphyseal (Hybrid)
۱۰ Technique: Complete Transphyseal Hamstring Autograft
۱۱ Brief Overview of Surgical Anterior Cruciate Ligament Options: Algorithm Based on Skeletal Age
۱۲ Postoperative Rehabilitation for Pediatric and Adolescent Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
۱۳ Controversies in Return to Play
۱۴ Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Prevention Programs
۱۵ Overview, Pathomechanics. Epidemiology, and Assessment of Patellar Dislocation
۱۶ Technique: Quad Tendon Medial PatellofemoraLigament Reconstruction
۱۷ Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction: Hamstring Technique
۱۸ Medial Patellar Tendon Transfer with Proximal Realignment
۱۹ Technique: Distal Realignment Tibial Tubercle Osteotomy
۲۰ Rehabilitation following Patellar Instability
۲۱ Osteochondritis Dissecans: Overview, Epidemiology, Etiology, Classification, Assessment
۲۲ Transarticular Drilling of Osteochondritis Dissecans
۲۳ Retroarticular Drilling of Osteochondritis Dissecans
۲۴ Open Reduction Internal Fixation Metal Compression Techniques for Juvenile Osteochondritis Dissecans
۲۵ Bioabsorbable Fixation of Symptomatic Juvenile Osteochondritis Dissecans Lesions in Children and Adolescents
۲۶ Osteochondral Autograft Transplantation/Allograft
۲۷ Technique: Frontiers of Cartilage Restoration
۲۸ Discoid Meniscus: Overview, Epidemiology, Classification, Assessment
۲۹ Surgical Techniques for Treatment of Symptomatic Discoid Meniscus
۳۰ Meniscal Allograft Transplantation
۳۱ Tibial Tubercle Avulsion Fractures in Children and Adolescents
۳۲ Tibial Spine Avulsion Fractures: Overview and Arthroscopic Technique for Internal Fixation with Cannulated Screws
۳۳ Tibial Spine/Anterior Cruciate Ligament Avulsion Fractures Overview Technique Suture
۳۴ Salter-Harris Distal Femur and Proximal Tibia Fractures
۳۵ Patella Sleeve Fractures
۳۶ Diagnostic Imaging of the Physis
۳۷ Growth Plate Anatomy
۳۸ Assessment of Growth Remaining in the Skeletally Immature Patient
۳۹ Surgical Treatment of Growth Arrest
۴۰ Applications of Implant-Mediated Guided Growth in Pediatric Knee Surgery
۴۱ Surgical Treatment for Symptomatic Osgood-Schtatter Disease