Cases and current concepts in pediatric sports medicine

Noah Archibald-Seiffer1, Jennifer Weiss, Kevin Shea

  • 1*School of Medicine, Univeristy of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT †Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles §Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA ‡St. Luke's Health System, Boise, ID ∥Department of Orthopaedics, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA ¶Rocky Mountain Youth Sports Medicine Institute, Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, Centennial, CO #Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA **Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN ††Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada ‡‡Children's Orthopaedics of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA.

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