Pediatric Orthopaedic Defomities

Specific operative and nonoperative techniques and their results
are stressed. The book is extensively illustrated with drawings,
most of which were made for this book, microscopy photos, and
serial radiographs. The reader learns of pediatric orthopedic
deformity in relation to normal and abnormal developmental
biology, the worsening of untreated disease with growth, and the
diagnostic and treatment interventions required based on the
stage of progression.





Features

Treatments are correlated with the pathologic state of the
disorder
Discusses disorders from earliest onset to the final state
showing how the altered biology leads to progressively greater
clinical deformity
Initial chapter focuses on development bone biology stressing a
broad based approach involving histologic, gene and molecular,
and biomechanical features
Subsequent chapters discuss the pathogenesis of the various
deformities, natural history, radiographic and imaging findings
and orthopaedic and surgical management