Pediatric Ortho Cases 005
April 2022 Pediatric Orthopedic case interpretation: tibia and fibula injuries with Kelsey Lena, Danielle Sutton, and Virginia Casey
Category Orthopaedics
Christian Baastrup
Christian Ingerslev Baastrup (1885 – 1950) was a Danish radiologist. Described Baastrup disease (sign) (1933) Kissing spines sign
George Chance
George Quentin Chance was an British radiologist. Eponymously associated with the Chance fracture (1948) transverse fracture through a vertebral body
Chance fracture
Chance fracture is a transverse fracture through a vertebral body and neural arch. Described by George Quentin Chance, British radiologist in 1948
Frank Holdsworth
Sir Frank Wild Holdsworth (1904 – 1969) was a British Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponym the Holdsworth fracture
Mario Bertolotti
Mario Bertolotti (1876-1957) was an Italian radiologist. Bertolotti syndrome (1917) L5 transverse processes and sacrum Sacralisation
Baastrup disease
Baastrup sign (kissing spines) refers to an orthopaedic condition / radiological sign with enlargement and approximation of adjacent spinous processes with normal intervertebral disc height and neuroforamina
Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
Heinrich Ernst Albers-Schönberg (1865 – 1921) was a German radiologist. Albers-Schönberg disease (osteopetrosis, marble bone disease)
Albers-Schönberg disease
Albers-Schönberg disease is the most common form of osteopetrosis. Also known as autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II (ADO II)
Winking owl sign
One of the first signs of vertebral metastases is disappearance of the pedicle on the AP X-ray. This is known as the 'absent pedicle' or 'winking owl sign'.
John Thomas sign
Throckmorton sign (John Thomas sign) where Penis Points to Pathology on X-ray. Tom Bentley Throckmorton (1885-1961) was an American neurologist
Segond fracture
Segond fracture: Avulsion fracture (small) of the lateral surface of the lateral tibial condyle. Paul Ferdinand Segond (1851-1912) described 1879