Melissa R. Larzo, MD; Linda S. Nield, MD; Deepak M. Kamat, MD, PhD
The authors review the types of fractures that are possible in an accidental fall, depict the most common mechanism of fracture, and provide recommendations about when child protective services should be...
Leonard R. Krilov, MD; Jonathan S. Luchs, MD; Vincent Sena, MD; Anita P. Price, MD, FACR; Sean R. Wilson, MD
It is difficult to diagnose acute osteomyelitis in children. When radiographs do not correlate with the clinical and laboratory findings, an MRI should be performed.
The parents of a 7-year-old girl, who had fallen off her bicycle and hit her left forehead 2 weeks earlier, brought their daughter to the emergency department after she began having increasingly severe...