title: Injuries in physically disabled children.
abstract: Disability is a condition or function that is judged to be significantly impairing relative to the usual standard of an individual or group. The spectrum of musculoskeletal disabilities in children is immense and varied. Musculoskeletal disabilities are congenital or acquired; they affect a child partially or generally and can occur as a permanent or transient disability.Although injuries still represent a major concern for children and adolescents worldwide, studies focusing on injuries in physically disabled children are lacking. To detect musculoskeletal injuries, radiographs are frequently required. In disabled children the radiographic findings can detect the skeletal injury but also can present special radiographic findings of the underlying disease.This review offers an overview of different musculoskeletal disabilities and their related injuries as well as characteristic findings on radiographs.
authors.affiliation: Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Orthopaedics, Medical University Graz.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kraus
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Surgery, Medical University Graz.
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Singer
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Surgery, Medical University Graz.
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wegmann
authors.affiliation: Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Radiology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tschauner
authors.affiliation: Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Orthopaedics, Medical University Graz.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Svehlik
authors.affiliation: Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Orthopaedics, Medical University Graz.
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Steinwender
authors.affiliation: Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Radiology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Erich
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sorantin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D009139:Musculoskeletal Abnormalities / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009141:Musculoskeletal System / Q000293:injuries*