A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that casting by itself was just as successful as ...

In addition to the most common types of fracture described, up to 5% of children with supracondylar fractures experience another injury, such as wrist fracture. Children with medial epicondyle ...

1. Casting only was non-inferior compared to surgical treatment in the management of children with medial epicondyle fractures. Evidence Rating Level: 1 (Excellent) Medial humeral epicondyle fractures ...

Pediatric elbow fractures are extremely common. It has been estimated that they account for approximately 65% of all fractures and dislocations in children. Supracondylar fractures constitute the ...

Little League Elbow “Little League Elbow”—another informal term—is used to describe a medical condition called medial epicondyle apophysitis, or inflammation of the growth plate on the ...

Antibiotic treatment prior to surgical repair of a pediatric elbow fracture does not reduce the risk for post-operative infection. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

Antibiotic treatment prior to surgical repair of a pediatric elbow fracture does not reduce the risk for post-operative infection, according to new findings from a team of researchers and surgeons ...

Medial epicondyle avulsion fracture. This is a type of elbow injury that happens most often in baseball players between the ages of 9 and 14 and can be caused by hard pitching.

Introduction Management controversy and clinical equipoise exist in treatments of long bone fractures and traumatic hip dislocation in paediatric patients due to the lack of high-quality clinical ...

The incidence of medial epicondyle fractures of the humerus in children and adolescents is ≥3:100 000 and account for approximately 12%–20% of all paediatric elbow fractures,1 2 30%–50% of these ...