Purpose Chemotherapy with alternating vincristine-doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide and
ifosfamide-etoposide cycles and primary tumor treatment with surgery and/or radiation therapy …

Background: Despite the many reports attesting to the efficacy of intraoperative somatosensory
evoked potential monitoring in reducing the prevalence of iatrogenic spinal cord injury …

Background: Distinguishing septic arthritis from transient synovitis of the hip in children can
be challenging. Authors of recent retrospective studies have used presenting factors to …

Background: Titanium elastic nails are commonly used to stabilize femoral fractures in
school-aged children, but there have been few studies assessing the risks and benefits of this …

Klippel-Feil syndrome occurs in a heterogeneous group of patients unified only by the presence
of a congenital defect in the formation or segmentation of the cervical spine. Numerous …

The solitary osteochondroma, a common pediatric bone tumor, is a cartilage-capped
exostosis. Hereditary multiple exostosis is an autosomal dominant disorder manifested by the …

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is an unexplained and common spinal deformity seen
in otherwise healthy children. Its pathophysiology is poorly understood despite intensive …

Congenital scoliosis, a lateral curvature of the spine caused by vertebral defects, occurs in
approximately 1 in 1,000 live births. Here we demonstrate that haploinsufficiency of Notch …

Objective. We report the development and testing of the Spinal Appearance Questionnaire (SAQ)
for reliability, validity, and responsiveness in patients with idiopathic scoliosis. …

High recurrence rates have been reported after surgical treatment of aneurysmal bone cysts,
ranging from 10–59%, and greater (five of seven) in children younger than 10 years. No …