Bone Abstracts

A 20-year-old male presented following a fall down. He was diagnosed with a C5–C7 burst fracture and underwent a cervical fixation surgery. He was transferred to inpatient rehabilitation with C6 ASIA A tetraplegia.70 days after the operation, he began to have intermittent mild fever with a temperature of 37.4 oC. On postoperative day 72, left thigh was noted to be edematous. The circumferential difference between the lower extremities mea...

Limb length discrepancy has been observed in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP). However, the difference of bone age and limb lengths have been a controversial issue. The purpose of this study was to analyze the bone age and the upper extremity segmental lengths between affected and naffected in HCP patients.Seventy-eight patients (39 boys and 39 girls; mean age 71.3±28.1 months). Fourty-five children were right and 33 were left hemiplegi...