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Shoulder: Sports-Related Injuries in Children and Adolescents

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Sports Injuries in Children and Adolescents

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Pediatric shoulder sports injuries may be due to acute macrotrauma or repetitive microtrauma. Anterior glenohumeral joint dislocations as well as associated Hill-Sachs, Bankart and multiple Bankart variant lesions such as Perthes, GLAD and ALPSA may occur acutely. Posterior glenohumeral joint dislocations, as well as associated reverse Hill-Sachs, reverse Bankart and POLPSA may also occur. Skeletally immature individuals may sustain fracture injuries to the open physes (Salter–Harris fractures) of the humeral head, glenoid, coracoid and acromion. Children also sustain clavicle fractures, acromioclavicular joint separations, and less likely, osteolysis of the distal clavicle and sternoclavicular joint separations. Myotendinous and myofascial strains, as well as soft tissue hematomas also occur in children and adolescents. Chronic overuse injuries include proximal humeral epiphysiolysis (little league shoulder), rotator cuff tendinopathy and impingement as well as rotator cuff tears. Anterior, posterior and multidirectional instability may also occur.

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Abbreviations

AC:

Acromioclavicular

ALPSA:

Anterior labroligamentous periosteal sleeve avulsion

CC:

Coracoclavicular

GLAD:

Glenolabral articular disruption

MRI:

Magnetic resonance imaging

POLPSA:

Posterior labroscapular periosteal sleeve avulsion

SC:

Sternoclavicular

SH:

Salter–Harris

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  1. Department of Radiology, Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 Tenth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11219, USA

    Amy Liebeskind, Varand Ghazikhanian, Shobi Zaidi & Javier Beltran

  2. San Francisco Magnetic Resonance Center, 1180 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, 94109, USA

    Usha Chundru

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Liebeskind, A., Ghazikhanian, V., Zaidi, S., Chundru, U., Beltran, J. (2010). Shoulder: Sports-Related Injuries in Children and Adolescents. In: Karantanas, A. (eds) Sports Injuries in Children and Adolescents. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2010_12

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