Persistent clubfoot deformity following treatment by the Ponseti method

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-46

  Chu, Alice ^a   Lehman, Wallace B ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

clubfoot; persistent clubfoot; Ponseti; recurrent clubfoot; relapse clubfoot; talipes equinovarus

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ARTHRITIS; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; BRACE; CALCANEUS; CALLUS; CAST APPLICATION; CLUBFOOT; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; METATARSAL OSTEOTOMY; MYOPATHY; NEUROPATHY; OSSIFICATION; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PLASTER CAST; PONSETI METHOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REVIEW; TALUS; TENDON TRANSFER; TENOTOMY; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; VARUS DEFORMITY;

ARTHROGRYPOSIS; CASTS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CLUBFOOT; HUMANS; MANIPULATION, ORTHOPEDIC; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 82955222229     PISSN: 1060152X     EISSN: 14735865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPB.0b013e32834ed9d4     Document Type: Review

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