Acute elbow extension deficit is an unusual phenomenon that has been observed in patients with congenital radioulnar synostosis. We report the case of an 11-year-old girl with congenital radioulnar synostosis who developed acute extension deficit of the right elbow and whose elbow range of motion was restored following lateral capsular release.

The objective of this study was to determine whether children with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly without synostosis demonstrated cognitive and psychomotor delays when compared with a standardized population sample. This was the initial assessment of a larger prospective study, which involved 21 subjects with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis (mean age, 10.9 months) and 42 subjects...

In 1944, after a legal case of disputed paternity in Switzerland, Nievergelt reported three children with deformities like those ofthe alleged father. They had talipes with tarsal synostosis, dysplasia of the elbows with radio-ulnar synostosis and subluxation of the radial head, and dysplasia of the tibia and fibula with exostoses. So far as had been ascertained neither of the parents of the fa...

Skull deformity in infants continues to be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Deformational plagiocephaly is a common and somewhat benign cause of skull deformity in infants that must be distinguished from the more serious craniosynostosis, which occurs alone or as a syndrome. Examining an infant's head from above can help the physician distinguish true lambdoid synostosis from deformation...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. PURPOSE To assess the effect of non-kyphotic aligned congenital C3-4 synostosis on the adjacent segment in 10 patients. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE In the cervical spine, fusion disease at the adjacent motion segments may be a risk factor for potential neurological compromise and death. METHODS Radiograms of 10 patients 13 to 69 years of age presenting w...