The drop toe sign: An indicator of neurologic impairment in congenital clubfoot

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 467, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1238-1242

  Edmonds, Eric W ^a   Frick, Steven L ^b  

^a RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ACHILLES TENOTOMY; BABY; BRACE; CHILD; CLUBFOOT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DORSIFLEXION; DROP TOE SIGN; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERONEUS NERVE; PLANTARFLEXION; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RELAPSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENOTOMY; TOE; TOE MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; INNERVATION; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERONEAL NEUROPATHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACHILLES TENDON; BIOMECHANICS; BRACES; CASTS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUBFOOT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PERONEAL NERVE; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64849090303     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0690-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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