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Pediatric Orthopedics: A Guide for the Primary Care Physician
by Richard J. Mier and Thomas D. Brower, 327 pp, $45, ISBN 0-306-44796-7, New York, NY, Plenum Medical Book Co, 1994.
Sanford R. Kimmel, MD, Reviewer
Medical College of Ohio Toledo
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(5):469-470.
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The authors of this book have "written it for generalists taking care of children and for trainees in pediatric and family practice residencies." It is organized functionally according to common problems involving the child's musculoskeletal system rather than anatomically. The first chapter reviews the pediatric orthopedic examination and defines terminology such as gibbus (a humpback deformity) as well as various gait patterns. Succeeding chapters review the differential diagnosis and management of pertinent problems, such as evaluation of the child with extremity pain or limp, skeletal defects and growth abnormalities, sports injuries or other musculoskeletal trauma, and developmental orthopedics.
The text is written in a straightforward manner, as if the authors were speaking to the reader. They emphasize the importance of "listening to the story" in evaluating the nature and
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