title: Imaging of the skeleton and soft tissues in children.
abstract: Sonographic applications to osteomyelitis, myositis ossificans, tropic pyomyositis, child abuse, synovitis, and slipped capital femoral epiphyses; MR imaging (including gadolinium-enhanced MR scans) in osteomyelitis, the normal and abnormal physis, physeal bars, normal marrow, Gaucher disease, cancer, dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica, myositis, tenosynovitis, arthritis, and clubfoot; nuclear imaging in osteomyelitis, tibia valga, limp, and unexplained lower extremity pain; and CT in osteomyelitis, are reviewed. Routine long-bone radiography for patients with congenital syphilis is not recommended. Tibia valga after fracture has not been fully explained; tibia valga also follows treatment of renal failure. Nonsupracondylar humerus fractures in infants and femoral shaft fractures in the first year of life may suggest child abuse.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229-2899.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Oestreich
mesh_terms: D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009141:Musculoskeletal System / Q000293:injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis