Treatment of severe late onset Perthes' disease with soft tissue release and articulated hip distraction: Early results

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 158-165

  Segev, Eitan ^a,b   Ezra, Elias ^a   Wientroub, Shlomo ^a   Yaniv, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hinged external fixator; Hip distraction; Late onset Legg Calve Perthes disease; Soft tissue release

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTICULATED HIP DISTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; DOWN SYNDROME; EPIPHYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; GELEOPHYSIC DYSPLASIA; GELEOPHYSIC EPIPHYSEAL DYSPLASIA; HIP DISLOCATION; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PERTHES DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE SURGERY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ARTHROGRAPHY; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGG-PERTHES DISEASE; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442487033     PISSN: 1060152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00009957-200405000-00004     Document Type: Article

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