what is the most common salter Harris fracture?
type 2 (75%)
Which SH fractures are ass w/ complications. What are they and mx?
“bony bridge across physics”
type 5 SH
A physeal bar or partial premature physeal arrest is a result of injury or infection to an unfused physis. It consists of a bony bridge crossing the growth plate that results in growth disturbance and/or deformity.
These bars form when the cartilage barrier is breached as a result of infection or trauma, this abnormal connection of metaphysis and epiphysis can be fibrous or osseous.
physeal bar
early bony bridge crossing growth plate
-inf or trauma
how long for periosteal rxn to appear on xray?
7-10 d
toddler fx
oblique fracture; 9 mo-3 yr
-if spiral, question child abuse
Wimberger sign
destruction of medial portion proximal metaphysis of tibia ass w/ syphilis. Pathogmonic.
torch infections w/ osseous change
-rubella (50%, appears ~wks) & syphilis (95%, appears ~6-8 wks)
syphilis osseous change
95%
*Treponema pallidum
rubella osseous change
50%
Caffey dx
aka infantile cortical hyperostosis
Effects of PgE 1 & 2
periosteal rxn
-look for sternotomy wires
neonatal periosteal rxn
physiologic periostitis of newborn-rules
NOT newborns (~3mo’s)
3 classic appearances LCH
“septic tank”
crossing vess close and infection cannot escape
when does OM bony change appear?
day 10
Define:
-brachy-, poly-, syn-, camp-, clino-, arachnodactyly
a-, mero-, acro-, meso-, rhizo-, micromelia
Dwarfism-subtypes to know
achondroplasia-moa, RF, classic findings
thanatophoric dysplasia
asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy (jeune)
Gorlin syndrome
bifid ribs
falx calcifications
basal cell cancers
odontogenic keratocysts