Handbook of Operative Techniques in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery 2026: Comprehensive Coverage of Fracture Fixation, Hip Reconstruction, and Deformity Correction for ABOS Part II Candidates

Written for the surgeon deciding, with the limb draped and the image intensifier live, whether what they are looking at is acceptable, this reference connects the biology of the growing skeleton to the judgments made at the table. It moves from physeal architecture, remaining growth, and remodeling capacity into the decisions those facts govern — pin construct and perfusion in the supracondylar elbow, concentric reduction in the dysplastic hip, screw containment in the slipped epiphysis, correction axis in the deformed tibia, level selection in the scoliotic spine. The Operative Checkpoint System names 120 accept-or-correct moments across 24 chapters and gathers every one into an indexed Master Atlas built for the two minutes before a case.

What This Book Puts in Your Hands

• Growth as an operative variable — physeal zones, output by site, and remodeling limits that separate what you may accept from what will never correct.

• Supracondylar fixation that holds — pin spread, far-cortex engagement, and stress confirmation, with perfusion judged apart from pulse.

• The injuries that fail through recognition — internal oblique displacement in the lateral condyle, and the radiocapitellar line that finds a Monteggia lesion before it becomes chronic.

• Hip reduction that develops the socket — arthrographic concentricity, the safe zone, and femoral shortening rather than force.

• Growth-dependent correction, timed — guided growth endpoints, epiphysiodesis arithmetic, and distraction rates set by regenerate and nerve.

• Deformity corrected where it lies — center of rotation, translation planned before the cut, and the fibular level that spares the peroneal nerve.

• The immature knee and spine — physeal-sparing reconstruction, sagittal-aware correction, and migration thresholds that catch a hip before it dislocates.

• Tissue taken without cost — biopsy tracts planned inside the resection field, and margins confirmed before any implant is opened.

Open it before your next list — the decisions every child on it depends on, in one reference.