What is the best evidence for the treatment of slipped capital femoral epiphysis?

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2012, Pages

  Loder, Randall T ^a,b   Dietz, Frederick R ^c  

^a James Whitcomb Riley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

level of evidence; slipped capital femoral epiphysis; treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTHROTOMY; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE REMODELING; BONE SCREW; CAST APPLICATION; CHONDROLYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EPIPHYSIODESIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSTEOTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIPPED CAPITAL FEMORAL EPIPHYSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL HIP DISLOCATION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BONE SCREWS; EPIPHYSES, SLIPPED; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSTEOTOMY;

EID: 84865528456     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: 15392570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e318259f2d1     Document Type: Article

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