Joint Instability

Lussazione atlanto-epistrofea e sindrome di Down: un binomio da non dimenticare

Merli G, Marino S, Mannarà UM, Certo F, Millesoli MS, Migliore A, Testaì MA, Berto VM, La Spina M

2026/2 — pag. 39-40 — DOI

A 6-year-old girl with Down syndrome presented with persistent torticollis and sudden neurological deficits. CT and MRI scans diagnosed an atlanto-axial dislocation (C1-C2) with severe spinal cord compression. Conservative treatment using traction an...

Genu recurvatum in un caso di ritardo dell’acquisizione del cammino

Lo Presti C, Ronco L, Tardivo I, Conrieri M, Bondone C, Spolaore S, Cravino M, Marinaccio C, Ricci F

2023/8 — pag. 166-166 — DOI

The diagnosis of type 2 spinal muscular atrophy was finally made in a two-year-old girl presenting with delay of the neuromotor development and genu recurvatum....

Lussazione della rotula in età adolescenziale

R. Oliveto

2018/7

The paper describes a patellar dislocation in an adolescent female. Patellar dislocations are a frequent musculoskeletal injury assessed in the Emergency Room and represent 3% of all knee injuries. Patients under the age of 16 tend to have higher reo...

Iperlassità legamentosa e bambini

V. Carrato, G. Ferrara

2017/3 — pag. 182-184

Trisomia e torcicollo

S. Lega, M. Carbone, G. Chiaffoni

2015/2 — pag. 111-114

Up to 15% of children with Down syndrome have atlanto-axial instability (AAI) due to constitutional ligament hyperlaxity. Symptomatic disease occurs in 3% of patients: most frequently neurological symptoms of spinal cord compression slowly progress...

Cifoscoliosi, ipotonia e iperlassità ligamentosa alla nascita: a quale sindrome pensare?

L. Matarazzo, C. Zanchi

2014/8

Un neonato “extralarge” (sindrome di Sotos)

E. Scaffidi

2003/3 — pag. 189-190

Il caso di Vanessa: un piede un po’ piatto ma non troppo

S. Castelli

1998/8 — pag. 543-544