Treatment of adolescent tibia vara with hemiepiphysiodesis: Risk factors for failure

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2873-2879

  McIntosh, Amy L ^a   Hanson, Chad M ^b   Rathjen, Karl E ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BOW LEG; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIPHYSIODESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEMIEPIPHYSIODESIS; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VARUS DEFORMITY; ADOLESCENT; BONE DYSPLASIA; METHODOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; BONE DISEASES, DEVELOPMENTAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73349142006     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.H.01245     Document Type: Article

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