While many radiographic assessments were reliable for surgical decision-making in pediatric patients with patellofemoral instability, results showed five assessments required consensus training to be reliable and five remained unreliable.
“Surgical decision-making for children and adolescents with patellofemoral instability relies heavily on radiographic measurement parameters that can assess for multiple factors that are contributing to patellofemoral instability,” Peter D. Fabricant, MD, MPH, pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery, told Healio. “This