How much varus is optimal with proximal femoral osteotomy to preserve the femoral head in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease?

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 341-347

  Kim, Harry K W ^a   Da Cunha, Ana Munhoz ^b   Browne, Richard ^a   Kim, Hui Taek ^c   Herring, J Anthony ^a  

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

^b HOSPITAL PEQUENO PRÍNCIPE   (Brazil)

^c Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE MATURATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR NECK; FEMUR SHAFT; FOLLOW UP; GREATER TROCHANTER; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OSTEOTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERTHES DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 79951900111     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.J.00830     Document Type: Article

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