Long-term results after gastrocnemius-soleus intramuscular aponeurotic recession as a part of multilevel surgery in spastic diplegic cerebral palsy

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 627-637

  Dreher, Thomas ^a   Buccoliero, Tanja ^a   Wolf, Sebastian I ^a   Heitzmann, Daniel ^a   Gantz, Simone ^a   Braatz, Frank ^a   Wenz, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROCNEMIUS SOLEUS INTRAMUSCULAR APONEUROTIC RECESSION; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PES EQUINUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; ADOLESCENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; FOOT MALFORMATION; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENDON; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EQUINUS DEFORMITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOT DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; GAIT; GERMANY; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TENDONS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861831501     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.K.00096     Document Type: Article

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