What Is the Best Treatment for Perthes’ Disease?

Apr 7, 2017 by in ORTHOPEDIC Comments Off on What Is the Best Treatment for Perthes’ Disease?

Fig. 5.1 Algorithm to determine the Stulberg outcomes in Perthes’ disease (Adapted from [12]) More recently, hip shape has been defined using a quantitative measure of sphericity, termed the sphericity…

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Evidence-Based Treatment for Tarsal Coalition

Apr 7, 2017 by in ORTHOPEDIC Comments Off on Evidence-Based Treatment for Tarsal Coalition

Statement Grade of recommendation Not all patients with tarsal coalition will develop symptoms B A symptomatic patients do not require any treatment B Non operative treatments should be tried first…

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Evidence-Based Treatment of Neuromuscular Scoliosis

Apr 7, 2017 by in ORTHOPEDIC Comments Off on Evidence-Based Treatment of Neuromuscular Scoliosis

Fig. 24.1 Typical neuromuscular curve type and options for spinal fixation. (a) C-shaped thoracolumbar curve with associated pelvic obliquity. (b) Hybrid fixation including Luque sublaminar wires and sacral alar iliac…

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Evidence-Based Treatments for Coxa Vara

Apr 7, 2017 by in ORTHOPEDIC Comments Off on Evidence-Based Treatments for Coxa Vara

Fig. 8.1 Bilateral coxa vara with neck shaft angle approaching 106° It has been described in many different ways over the years, but we shall use the following classification [1]:…

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