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Objectives: In the COVID-19 era, extreme measures of social distancing have contained the spread of common viral respiratory infections, which are involved in the pathogenesis of Adenotonsillar Hypertrophy (ATH), and Chronic Otitis Media with Effusion (COME), the two commonest chronic ENT diseases of childhood. This study examines the lockdown effect on the number of procedures performed for these two conditions.

Methods: The consecutive charts of 650 and 195 children being operated respectively for ATH and COME during the quarantine (05/2020-02/2021) and unrestrained (05/2019-02/2020) periods were retrospectively reviewed.

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Background: Patellofemoral joint (PFJ) disease is a common ailment in elite athletes. Our aim is to report the frequency of superolateral Hoffa's fat pad (SHFP) edema, and PFJ cartilage damage and bone marrow lesions (BML), among Olympian athletes, and to study the association between measurements of trochlear morphology and vertical patellar position and a) PFJ cartilage damage or BML, and b) SHFP edema.

Methods: All knee MRI, performed in the Olympic Village and polyclinics, of participating athletes in the 2016 Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro were included.

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