Clinical research in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery:
- Congenital deformities of the lowerextremity
- Limb length discrepencies
- Clubfoot
- External fixation in the treatment of limb length and angular
deformities.
- Blount's disease
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Association between pes plannus and gastro-soleus contracture
- Accessory navicular and pes plannus
Clinical extertise in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery:
- Lower limb reconstruction with external fixation: Ilizarov, MAC
(MultiAxial correcting external fixation system)
- Congenital deformities of the lower extremity: length, angulation,
rotation
- Deformity correction with hemiepiphyseodesis ("8-plates", Peanut
Plates)
- Growth plate disturbances (bars),
- Clubfoot
- Lower limb dysplasias: Proximal femoral focal deficiencies, fibular
hemimelia, tibial hemimelia.
- Growth disturbances
- Blounts disease (tibia vara)
- Congenital dislocation of the knee
- Tarsal coalitions of the foot
- Foot and ankle trauma/fractures
- Congenital deficiencies of the foot: Polydactyly, macrodactyly, ray
amputations
- Lower limb trauma/fractures
- Vertical talus
- Congenital diseases of the hip
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
- Congenital dislocation of the hip
- Legg Perthes disease
- Lower limb amputations: congenital and traumatic
Selected Publications
Cummings RJ, Davidson RS, Armstrong PF, Lehman WB: Congenital Clubfoot. J Bone Joint Surg AM. 84-A(2): 290-308, Feb 2002.
Flynn JM, Wong KL, Yeh GL, Meyer JS, Davidson RS.: Displaced fractures of the hip in children. Management by early operation and immobilization in a hip spica cast. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 84(1): 108-12, Jan 2002.
Davidson RS: Transverse Bisector Line. Distractions 8(4): 7, Oct 2002.
Davidson RS.: Metatarsal Lengthening. Foot Ankle Clinics. James Sammarco (eds.). 6(3): 499-518, Sep 2001.
McCarthy JJ, Betz RR, Davidson RS, Maus M, Spaeth GL: Early radiographic differentiation of infantile tibia vara from physiologic bowing using the femoral-tibial ratio. J.Pediatr Orthop. 21(4): 545-8, Jul-Aug 2001.
Sullivan RJ, Davidson RS: When does the flat-top talus lesion occur in
Idiopathic clubfoot: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging at three months of age. Foot Ankle Int. 22(5): 422-5, May 2001.
Hyman JE, Lee Francis, Dormans JP Davidson RS, Magnusson M. Roye DP: Metatarsal Lenghtening. Foot and Ankle Clinics:Osteotomy of the Foot and Ankle. Mary Myerson, M.D., g. J.Sammarco, M.D. (eds.). W,B, Sounders, Co. 6(3): 499-519, September 2001.
back to top
Last updated: 11/30/2016
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
