Pediatric and Adolescent Sports Traumatology

1. Basic Science and Injury in Growing Athletes: Cartilage, Menisci, and Bone
Cosimo Tudisco, Flavia Botti, Salvatore Bisicchia, Ernesto Ippolito

2. Basic Science and Injury in Growing Athletes: Muscle, Tendon, and Ligament
Antonio Gigante, Alberto Busilacchi, Francesco Greco, Luigi Palma

3. The Preparticipation Examination: Evaluation of the Pediatric and Adolescent Athlete
Paolo Zeppilli, Massimiliano Bianco

4. Overuse Injuries
Lyle J. Micheli, Albert M. Pendleton

5. Physeal and Epiphyseal Cartilage Injuries
Onofrio Donzelli, Leonardo Marchesini Reggiani, Manuele Lampasi, Stefano Stilli

6. The Spine: Sports-Related Pathology
Pietro Bartolozzi, Guido Barneschi

7. The Shoulder: Skeletal Injuries and Ligamentous Instability
Vincenzo Izzo, Carlo Fabbriciani

8. The Elbow: Ligamentous and Skeletal Injuries
Filippo M. Sénès, Nunzio Catena, Silvio Boero

9. Wrist and Hand: Ligamentous and Skeletal Injuries
Antonio Tulli, Antonio Pagliei, Giuseppe Taccardo, Francesco Catalano, Francesco Fanfani

10. The Hip: Femoro-Acetabular Impingement
Luca M. Pierannunzii, Marco d’Imporzano

11. The Hip: Avulsion Fractures
Luca M. Pierannunzii, Marco d’Imporzano

12. The Knee: Ligamentous Tears
Francesco Falciglia, Antonio Lazzaro, Vincenzo Guzzanti

13. The Knee: Meniscal Lesions
Piero Volpi, Matteo Cervellin, Corrado Bait, Emanuele Prospero, A. Redaelli, Alessandro Quaglia

14. The Knee: Osteochondritis Dissecans
Marie-Lyne Nault, Mininder S. Kocher

15. The Knee: Patellofemoral Disorders
Marco Giordano, Angelo Gabriele Aulisa, Vincenzo Guzzanti

16. Ankle and Foot: Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Talus
Sandro Giannini, Roberto E. Buda, Marco Cavallo, Francesco Castagnini, Gherardo Pagliazzi, Francesca Vannini

17. Ankle and Foot: Acute Ligamentous Tears of the Ankle
Francesco Falciglia, Marco Giordano, Vincenzo Guzzanti

18. Ankle and Foot: Chronic Instability
Sandro Giannini, Gherardo Pagliazzi, Alberto Ruffilli, Deianira Luciani, Camilla Pungetti, Massimiliano Mosca

19. Ankle and Foot: Foot Abnormalities and Pathologies
Sandro Giannini, Roberto E. Buda, Alessandro Parma, Laura Ramponi, Antonio Mazzotti, Francesca Vannini

20. Orthopedic Diseases: Non-Sports-Related Pathologies in Young Athletes
Sean P. Kearney, John P. Dormans

21. Imaging and Techniques
Salvatore Masala, Antonicoli Marco, Giulia Claroni, Roberto Fiori, Giovanni Simonetti

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Sports Medicine, Primary Care Medicine