Orthopaedic Clinical Research

Research on spine disorders

Operative treatment of high-grade spondylolisthesis in children
Prospective study of scoliosis in children with cerebral palsy
Aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) of the spine
Scoliosis Outcomes Database
Managing complex spinal deformities
Spondylolysis and conservative treatment: is radiographic healing necessary for full recovery?
Do children with scoliosis and low socioeconomic status present at a later stage?
Bracing adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
Prospective study of Scheuermann's kyphosis
A retrospective analysis of the utility of plain X-rays in the management of low back pain
Cost analysis of post-operative care in pediatric spine patients
Dual rod instrumentation with limited fusion for the treatment of progressive early-onset scoliosis
Operative delay with the use of intravenous Vancomycin in orthopaedic spine surgery
Safety of Vancomycin powder in pediatric spine patients
The Chest Wall and Spine Deformity Registry
Use of the O-arm® intraoperative computerized tomography scanner in pediatric spinal surgery
Pediatric surgical site infections following spine procedures
Pediatric spine and thorax geometry and pulmonary function
Acquired torticollis in children: the role of dynamic axial rotational CT scans in the diagnosis of atlanto-axial rotatory displacement (subluxation and fixation)
Minimize Implants, Maximize Outcomes clinical trial

Neuromonitoring and growing rods/VEPTR (potential prospective clinical trial)
VEPTR implantation to treat children with early-onset scoliosis without rib abnormalities: a prospective multi-center study
Pediatric spine and thorax geometry and pulmonary function
The Virtual Growing Child

Functional outcome and complications after reconstruction with an expandable endoprosthesis in children with bony sarcomas
Identification and characterization of genes and molecular mechanisms causing multiple hereditary osteochondroma (MHO) and related bone disorders
Center of Research Translation in Multiple Hereditary Exostoses (MHE)
A novel diagnostic MR imaging sign for osteoid osteoma
The use of intraoperative CT in osteoid osteomas and osteoblastoma treatment
A retrospective review of bone and soft-tissue sarcomas
Chondroblastoma (multi-center)
Treatment of nonossifying fibromas using percutaneous curettage, intramedullary decompression and grafting
Thoracic osteochondroma
Upper extremity tumors in children
Aggressive fibromatosis in children: a review of outcome management at CHOP
Fibrous dysplasia/shepherd’s crook deformity
Jaffe-Campanacci syndrome/neurofibromatosis type 1 clinical overlap
The treatment of benign lesions of the proximal femur in children: a new classification with corresponding treatment implications

Retrospective slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) study: prophylactic pinning of the contralateral hip
Hip reconstruction in cerebral palsy: an analysis of complications and outcomes
Range of motion of the hip in children: what is the norm?
Pediatric hip disorders clinical registry and sample repository
Long-term outcomes after in situ pinning for slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
What is the natural history, prognosis, and proper guidelines of management in infants with developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH)

Intercondylar shelf angle in the normal pediatric knee: what is normal?
All-epiphyseal anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction: ideal placement of the femoral tunnel
A natural history of pseudoarthrosis of the tibia
Meniscal tears in pediatric athletes: treatment and outcomes
Results of arthroscopic treatment of discoid meniscus
MRI measurements of normal and ACL-torn knees in skeletally immature patients
Degeneration of the knee joint in skeletally immature patients diagnosed with a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament: is there harm in delay of treatment?
Bilateral ACL tears in children and adolescents
ACL recovery
Correlation between isokinetic strength testing and functional testing in adolescent athletes following ACL reconstruction
ACL injury prevention program
The treatment of benign lesions of the proximal femur in children: a new classification with corresponding treatment implications
Determining the standard for clubfoot
Rehabilitation timeline following all epiphyseal anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction
Transphyseal versus independent tunnel placement in ACL reconstruction in skeletally immature patients: is it safe to assume we are comparing apples-to-apples?
Clubfoot treatment: retrospective review of treatment with Ponseti method and variants
Sports medicine outcomes: Multi-center ACL Revision Study (MARS)
Epiphyseodesis of contralateral limb in case of endoprosthetic replacement for various malignant conditions of lower limb
Accessory navicular

Acute compartment syndrome of the upper extremity in children: diagnosis, management and outcomes
Referral patterns of emergent hand transfers to a tertiary care center
Incidence of MRSA infections after hand surgery
Shoulder instability and dislocations in adolescents: evaluation and treatment
Long-term follow-up of gunshot wounds to the hand or upper extremity in children
Pink pulseless hand (prospective study)
Diagnostic utility of MRI scans in pediatric wrist injury
Unstable supracondylar humerus fractures: experience with the “suprone” technique
Non-operative treatment compared with plate fixation of displaced midshaft clavicle fractures: a prospective evaluation
Supracondylar humerus fractures in children younger than three years
Overview of Monteggia fractures/dislocations
Validation and integrated use of a simulated pediatric distal radius fracture reduction model
Functional outcomes of displaced distal radius fractures in children
Factors affecting outcome of supracondylar fractures
An analysis of T-condylar fractures in children and adolescents
Radial neck fracture outcomes of patients treated at CHOP
Radial neck fractures in children
Medial epicondyle fractures in throwing and other overhead athletes

Musculoskeletal staph aureus infections in children: a cohort comparison of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive strains
Retrospective review of intravenous Vancomycin prophylaxis in pediatric orthopaedic patients
An investigation into orthopaedic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (caMRSA) infection in children
Outcomes and efficacy of multi-modal anesthesia use in children
Leukocyte esterase strip study
Safety of Vancomycin powder in pediatric spine patients

Pain, function and quality of life in patients with neuromuscular disorders
The Virtual Growing Child
Relationship of osteochondritis dissecans classification to healing and functional outcomes
Osteochondritis dissecans in children
Healing patterns of osteochondritis dissecans lesions on radiographs
Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Knee: Disease, Treatment and Outcome Registry
Retro versus trans articular drilling for juvenile osteochondritis dissecans of the knee: a multi-center, randomized controlled study
Inter/intra-rater reliability in measuring size of osteochondritis dissecans lesions on plain radiographs
Long-term follow up of treatment for avascular necrosis (AVN)
Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) cost analysis

Reviewed by: Division of Orthopaedics