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Imaging Assessment of the Pediatric Spine: Selected Topics

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Several diseases may affect the spine of children and adolescents, some of them inherent to skeletally immature patients, such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis, “idiopathic” pediatric intervertebral disc calcification, and Scheuermann disease, while others are not specific of the pediatric age group but present peculiarities when children are affected, such as spondylolysis and spinal infection. Awareness of the imaging appearance of these conditions is paramount to the differential diagnosis and to guide therapeutic decision-making. Some other musculoskeletal disorders that present spinal involvement in children are discussed elsewhere in this book and are not included in this chapter.

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  1. Hospital da Criança de Brasília José Alencar, Hospital Ortopédico e Medicina Especializada (HOME) and Diagnóstico Clínica de Imagens Médicas, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

    Sergio Lopes Viana

  2. Hospital da Criança de Brasília José Alencar, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

    Maria Custódia Machado Ribeiro

  3. Gastren Clínica Médica e Radiológica (Iúna-ES), Clínica Radiológica Med Imagem, Clínica Radiológica Radial, Santa Casa de Misericórdia and Unimed Sul Capixaba, Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espírito Santo, Brazil

    Bruno Beber Machado

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Viana, S.L., Machado Ribeiro, M.C., Beber Machado, B. (2019). Imaging Assessment of the Pediatric Spine: Selected Topics. In: Joint Imaging in Childhood and Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11342-1_12

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