Radiograph-Negative Lateral Ankle Injuries in Children: Occult Growth Plate Fracture or Sprain?

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Boutis, Kathy ^a   Plint, Amy ^b   Stimec, Jennifer ^a   Miller, Elka ^b   Babyn, Paul ^c   Schuh, Suzanne ^a   Brison, Robert ^d   Lawton, Louis ^b   Narayanan, Unni G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c SASKATOON HEALTH REGION   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY SCALE FOR KIDS SCORE; ANKLE INJURY; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ANKLE SPRAIN; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; AVULSION FRACTURE; AVULSION INJURY; BONE INJURY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FIBULA FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH PLATE; GROWTH PLATE FRACTURE; HUMAN; LIGAMENT INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALTER HARRIS TYPE I FRACTURE OF THE DISTAL FIBULA; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING; ANKLE INJURIES; ANKLE LATERAL LIGAMENT; BRACE; COMPLICATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBULA; FRACTURES, BONE; INJURIES; INJURY SCALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ANKLE INJURIES; BRACES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURES, BONE; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LATERAL LIGAMENT, ANKLE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84954095869     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.4114     Document Type: Article

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