The December 2015 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: Paediatric femoral fractures: a single incision nailing?; Lateral condylar fractures: open or percutaneous?; . Forearm refracture: the risks; Tibial spine fractures; The child’s knee in MRI; The mechanics of SUFE; Idiopathic clubfoot

The October 2015 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: Radiographic follow-up of DDH; When the supracondylar goes wrong; Apophyseal avulsion fractures; The ‘pulled elbow’; Surgical treatment of active or aggressive aneurysmal bone cysts in children; Improving stability in supracondylar fractures; Biological reconstruction may be preferable in children’s osteosarcoma; The paediatric hip fracture

The April 2015 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: Reducing the incidence of DDH – is ‘back carrying’ the answer?; Surgical approach and AVN may not be linked in DDH; First year routine radiographic follow up for scoliosis not necessary; Diagnosis of osteochondritis dessicans; Telemedicine in paediatrics; Regional anesthesia in supracondylar fractures?

The December 2014 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: predicting drift in supracondylar fractures; do normal hips dislocate?; the burden of trampoline fractures; muscle eversion activity is strongly predictive of outcome in CTEV; the modified Dunn osteotomy; plaster and moulded casts; and psychology and fractures

The February 2015 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: Hip dislocation in children with CTEV: two decades of experience; Population-based prevention of DDH in cerebral palsy: 20 years’ experience; Shoulder derotation in congenital plexus palsy; Back pain in the paediatric population: could MRI be the answer?; Intercondylar fracture of the humerus in children; The Dunn osteotomy in SUFE; Radiocapitellar line a myth!; Do ‘flatfooted’ children suffer?

The October 2014 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: spondylolisthesis management strategies; not all cervical collars are even; quality of life with Legg-Calve-Perthe’s disease; femoral shaft fractures in children; percutaneous trigger thumb release – avoid at all costs in children; predicting repeat surgical intervention in acute osteomyelitis; and C-Arm position inconsequential in radiation exposure

The April 2014 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: urgent supracondylar fractures; rotational osteotomy for synostosis; predicting slip in paediatric forearm fractures; progressive lengthening of the digit is possible; treatment of SUFE with the Dunn osteotomy; and the best way to apply the eight-plate?

The December 2013 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360. looks at: Long term-changes in hip morphology following osteotomy; Arthrogrypotic wrist contractures are surgically amenable; Paediatric femoral lengthening over a nail; Current management of paediatric supracondylar fractures; MRI perfusion index predictive of Perthes’ progression; Abduction bracing effective in residual acetabular deformity; Hurler syndrome in the spotlight; and the Pavlik works for femoral fractures too!

The October 2013 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360. looks at: Half a century of Pavlik treatment; Step away from the child!: trends in fracture management; Posterolateral rotatory elbow instability in children; Osteochondral lesions undiagnosed in patellar dislocations; Oral bisphosphonates in osteogenesis imperfecta; Crossed or parallel pins in supracondylar fractures?; Not too late nor too early: getting epiphysiodesis right; Fixation of supramalleolar osteotomies

The June 2012 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360. looks at; open reduction for DDH; growing rod instrumentation for scoliosis; acute patellar dislocation; management of the relapsed clubfoot; clubfoot in Iran; laughing gas and fracture manipulation; vascularised periosteal fibular grafting for nonunion; slipped upper femoral epiphysis; intramedullary leg lengthening and orthopaedic imaging and defensive medicine

The June 2015 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: ACL reconstruction in paediatric knees; Hips, slips and cams; The adolescent clavicle; 3D fluoroscopy in DDH?; The psychiatric aspects of hip pain in adolescents; Adolescent bunions: dealer’s choice?; Medial epicondylar fractures revisited

The August 2015 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: Learning the Pavlik; MRI and patellar instability; Cerebral palsy and hip dysplasia; ‘Pick your poison’: elastic nailing under the spotlight; Club feet and surgery; Donor site morbidity in vascularised fibular grafting; Cartilage biochemistry with hip dysplasia; SUFE and hip decompression: a good option?

The August 2014 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: Conservative treatment still OK in paediatric clavicular fractures; Femoral anteversion not the usual suspect in patellar inversion; Shoulder dislocation best treated with an operation; Perthes’ disease results in poorer quality of adult life; Physiotherapy little benefit in supracondylar fractures; Congenital vertical talus addressed at the midtarsal joint; Single-sitting DDH surgery worth the effort; and cubitus valgus associated with simple elbow dislocation

The June 2014 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: plaster wedging in paediatric forearm fractures; the medial approach for DDH; Ponseti – but not as he knew it?; Salter osteotomy more accurate than Pemberton in DDH; is the open paediatric fracture an emergency?; bang up-to-date with femoral external fixation; indomethacin, heterotopic ossification and cerebral palsy hips; lengthening nails for congenital femoral deformities, and is MRI the answer to imaging of the physis?

The February 2014 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: flexible plasters; dual 8-plate or ablation for knee epiphysiodesis; ultrasounds for pulled elbow; leg length without the radiation; Boyd amputation in limb deficiencies; gold standard club foot treatment; quadrupled semitendinosis graft effective in paediatric ACL reconstruction; and predicting complications following cerebral palsy hip reconstruction

The August 2013 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: a multilevel approach to equinus gait; whether screening leads to needless intervention; salvage of subcapital slipped epiphysis; growing prostheses for children’s oncology; flexible nailing revisited; ultrasound and the pink pulseless hand; and slipping forearm fractures

The February 2013 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: ABC treated with suction and curettage; peri-acetabular osteotomy; cast index; Perthes’ disease associated with accidental injury; brachial plexus birth palsy; MRI assessment of DDH; total meniscectomy; and paediatric septic arthritis

The June 2013 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: whether reaching a diagnosis is more difficult than previously thought; adolescent and paediatric DDH; the A-frame orthosis and Legg-Calvé-Perthes’ disease; failure of hip surgery in patients with cerebral palsy; adolescent rotator cuff injuries; paediatric peripheral nerve injuries; predicting residual deformity following Ponseti treatment; and the Dunn procedure.

The August 2012 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360. looks at: whether 3D-CT gives a better idea of coverage than plain radiographs; forearm fractures after trampolining accidents; forearm fractures and the Rush pin; the fractured distal radius; elastic stable intramedullary nailing for long-bone fractures; aponeurotic recession for the equinus foot; the torn medial patellofemoral ligament and the adductor tubercle; slipped capital femoral epiphysis; paediatric wrist arthroscopy; and Pirani scores and clubfoot

The April 2013 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: improving stress distribution in dysplastic hips; the dangers of fashion; the natural history of supracondylar fractures; ankles that perform well as knees; intra-articular hip pathology at osteotomy; the safe removal of flexible nails; supracondylar fracture fixation; and talipes