Dr. James R Kasser MD
Orthopedist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
300 Longwood Ave Boston MA, 02115Rating
5/5
About
Dr. James Kasser is a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Kasser specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system in children. As a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Kasser tends to childrens bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Pediatric orthopaedic surgeons can treat newborns to teenagers. Some conditions Dr. Kasser treats include gait abnormalities like limping, limp and spine deformities, broken bones and bone and joint infections.
Education and Training
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1976
Tufts University School of Medicine 1976
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Radiologic case study. Infantile cortical hyperostosis (Caffey's disease).
- Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease: MR imaging evaluation during manual positioning of the hip--comparison with conventional arthrography.
- Differentiating between septic arthritis and transient synovitis of the hip in children: an evidence-based clinical prediction algorithm.
- Orthopaedic aspects of child abuse.
- Massive subperiosteal hemorrhage and femoral shaft osteonecrosis: a complication of tissue plasminogen activator therapy for purpura fulminans.
- Flexon-type Salter-Harris I injury of the proximal tibial epiphysis.
- Development of a virtual reality arthroscopic knee simulator.
- Early failure of Pavlik harness treatment for developmental hip dysplasia: clinical and ultrasound predictors.
- Pediatric floating elbow.
- Prospective reevaluation of the association between thrombotic diathesis and legg-perthes disease.
- Osteopetrosis.
- A clinical practice guideline for treatment of septic arthritis in children: efficacy in improving process of care and effect on outcome of septic arthritis of the hip.
- Delay in diagnosis of slipped capital femoral epiphysis.
- Validation of a clinical prediction rule for the differentiation between septic arthritis and transient synovitis of the hip in children.
- Analysis of 51 tibial triplane fractures using CT with multiplanar reconstruction.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Abnormal Gait
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