Joint imaging in childhood and adolescence /

This book covers key selected topics in the imaging evaluation of the skeletally immature joint. It considers the current role, advantages, and limitations of each modality in pediatric assessment and presents the imaging appearances of anatomic and developmental peculiarities of the growing skeleto...

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Main Authors: Viana, Sergio Lopes
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Ribeiro, Maria Custo dia Beber; Machado, Bruno Beber
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Berlin ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35876-0
Summary: This book covers key selected topics in the imaging evaluation of the skeletally immature joint. It considers the current role, advantages, and limitations of each modality in pediatric assessment and presents the imaging appearances of anatomic and developmental peculiarities of the growing skeleton.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xi, 328 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9783642358760 (electronic bk.)
3642358764 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: RJ51
CLC: R445
Contents: Imaging Methods and the Immature Joint: An Introduction -- Peculiar Aspects of the Anatomy and Development of the Growing Skeleton -- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis -- Juvenile Spondyloarthropathies and Pediatric Collagen Vascular Disorders -- Infectious Arthropathies and Related Diseases -- Articular and Periarticular Tumors and Pseudotumors -- Legg-Calve -Perthes Disease -- Musculoskeletal Disorders Related to Pediatric Hematologic Diseases -- Accidental and Non-accidental Articular Injuries in the Skeletally Immature Patient -- Sports-Related Musculoskeletal Lesions in Pediatric Patients -- Imaging Assessment of the Pediatric Spine: Selected Topics -- Selected Dysplastic and Developmental Abnormalities of the Immature Joint.