IN RECENT years traumatic separation of the epiphysis of the lower femur has been observed to occur among schoolboy football players. The injured player, as a rule, is unable to give an accurate ...

We report a case of rare birth injury leading to physeal fracture after a routine cesarean delivery. Because plain radiographics are often normal, therefore these physeal fractures usually present ...

For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] Morris, Robert H. — Assistant Orthopedic Surgeon, Children's Hospital. Downing, F. Harold — Assistant in Orthopedic ...

Slipped capital femoral epiphysis or SCFE is the most common adolescent ... The apparent paradox is explained by one hypothesis that patients with lower grades of slip compensate for the deformity ...