The effect of vitamin D on the speed and quality of pediatric fracture healing.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of vitamin D on the speed and quality of pediatric fracture healing.

Methods: A 4-year prospective study of healthy children with shaft fractures of the forearm bones (treated with minimally invasive osteosynthesis) or femur (treated by traction or by minimally invasive osteosynthesis). All children had their vitamin D levels examined four times-at the time of the injury, 1, 3, and 5 months after the injury.

[Thoracolumbar Compression Fractures in Children].

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The study aimed to draw up a diagnosis and treatment guidelines for the management of the most common compression fractures of the thoracolumbar spine in children. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 2015 and 2017, pediatric patients with a thoracolumbar injury aged 0-12 years were followed up in the University Hospital in Motol and the Thomayer University Hospital. The age and gender of the patient, injury etiology, fracture morphology, number of injured vertebrae, functional outcome (VAS and ODI modified for children), and complications were assessed.

[Migration of the Tips of Metal Implants during Treatment of Coxa Vara Adolescentium (Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis)].

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This paper aims to detect, through a retrospective study, the migration of the tips of used metal implants (K-wires or a screw) in the direction out from the proximal femoral epiphysis as a part of studied basic radiometric characteristics of the cohort, with no intention of the authors to evaluate the therapy outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHODS It was a retrospective multicentre study including patients of two orthopaedic clinics and one department of orthopaedics treated in the period 2005-2018. The same treatment procedure was used in all three centres.

Ultrasound imaging in diagnostics of Monteggia lesion in children.

Purpose: The aim of the study is to evaluate the use of ultrasound imaging in diagnostics of Monteggia lesion in children where conventional radiographs and the use of the radiocapitellar line fail to provide an accurate diagnosis.

Methods: Prospective diagnostic study of 70 patients treated between May 2018 and July 2021 in a pediatric level 1 trauma center. In 20 patients with the confirmed radiographic diagnosis of Monteggia lesion, an ultrasound of the humeroradial joint was performed to determine signs of both normal and dislocated elbow joint.

Ultrasound diagnostics of a rare injury of the unossified pediatric skeleton - case report.

Plain X-ray remains a standard diagnostic tool for evaluation of skeletal injuries in children. However, it provides inadequate imaging of unossified, cartilaginous parts of pediatric bones. Our article presents the possibilities of ultrasound imaging based on the case report of a seven years old patient with a rare injury of the unossified medial epicondyle of the humerus where the diagnosis and indication for osteosynthesis has been made based on ultrasound examination of the injured elbow.