79601 - Pediatric Orthopedic

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthopaedics Techniques (cod. 5915)

Course contents

At the end of the course, the student must be able to know the main pathologies relating to pediatric orthopedics, with hints of prosthetic and surgical treatment.

The topics covered will be the following:

- DDH

- Clubfoot

- Flatfoot

- Perthes

- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis

- Limb length discrepancy

- Bow legs, Knock knees

- Hip, knee, foot pain in children

- Scoliosis and Kyphosis

Readings/Bibliography

Tachdjian Pediatric Orthopaedics: From the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Harring JA 5th Edition 2014. Elsevier Saunders. Philadelphia.

Teaching methods

Frontal classes

Assessment methods

Oral test

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Di Gennaro