Session VIII - Pediatrics Saturday, October 14, 2000

Moderator: Kathryn E. Cramer, MD & Mitchel B. Harris, MD
8:00 am Pelvic Fractures in a Pediatric Level I Trauma Center

Nicolas Grisoni, BS; Susan Connor, PhD; Eric Marsh, RN, MSN; George H. Thompson, MD; Daniel R. Cooperman, MD, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH

8:06 am Clinical Outcomes in Skeletally Immature Unstable Pelvis Fractures

Paul S. Shurnas, MD; Wade R. Smith, MD; Gianna Luzko, BS; Gaia Georgopoulos, MD; Steven J. Morgan MD, University of Colorado Health Sciences, Denver, CO

8:19 am Femoral Shaft Fractures in Children: Traction and Casting versus Intramedullary Nailing

Karl Buechsenschuetz, DO; Charles T. Mehlman, DO, MPH; Elisa Immerman, MBA; K. J. Shaw, MD; Alvin H. Crawford, MD; Dennis R. Roy, MD; E. J. Wall, MD, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

8:25 am Posterolateral Rotatory Instability of the Elbow following Varus Malunion of Pediatric Supracondylar Humeral Fracture

Michael D. McKee, MD, FRCS(C), St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Shawn W. O'Driscoll, MD, PhD; Bernard F. Morrey, MD; Robert J. Spinner MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; W. Ben Kibler, MD, Lexington, KY

8:38 am Histopathology of Growth Plate Fractures

John A. Ogden, MD; Timothy M. Ganey, PhD, Atlanta Medical Center, Atlanta, GA

8:42 am Is Anatomic Reduction Necessary for Displaced Physeal Fractures of the Distal Tibia?

Donna M. Pacicca, MD; Kathryn E. Cramer, MD; Steven Nguyen, MD; Abhay Patel, MD; Paul Tornetta, III, MD, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA