SAN FRANCISCO — Compared to their peers, obese children sustained more epiphyseal fractures and fewer metaphyseal fractures, according to findings presented here. “We found a higher risk of epiphyseal ...

Now, in a comprehensive case-control study of the Danish population, Vestergaard and colleagues report no association between oral retinoid use (isotretinoin and acitretin) and the risk for bone ...

Proximal humerus fractures account for <5% of fractures in children and the peak age of occurrence is 15 years old. 1 Nearly all proximal and midshaft fractures of the humerus in the pediatric ...

The overall interobserver reliability of this fracture classification is better than most other reported agreement for fracture classification systems in adults. According to Landis and Koch, a kappa ...

1 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK 2 Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool L9 7AL, UK ...