Clubfoot: Etiology and treatment

Congenital talipes equinovarus is the commonest congenital anomaly with an incidence of one to two per 1000 live births. Over the centuries it has been treated by various modalities, but the dilemma facing the surgeon has been a strong tendency to relapse. With the use of the Ponseti technique, the...

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Autores principales: Anand, Ashish, Sala, Debra A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19823650
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.38576
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description Congenital talipes equinovarus is the commonest congenital anomaly with an incidence of one to two per 1000 live births. Over the centuries it has been treated by various modalities, but the dilemma facing the surgeon has been a strong tendency to relapse. With the use of the Ponseti technique, the number of patients who undergo soft tissue release has decreased. This technique probably represents a panacea for the treatment of this unsolved mystery.
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spelling pubmed-27595972009-10-09 Clubfoot: Etiology and treatment Anand, Ashish Sala, Debra A Indian J Orthop Review Article Congenital talipes equinovarus is the commonest congenital anomaly with an incidence of one to two per 1000 live births. Over the centuries it has been treated by various modalities, but the dilemma facing the surgeon has been a strong tendency to relapse. With the use of the Ponseti technique, the number of patients who undergo soft tissue release has decreased. This technique probably represents a panacea for the treatment of this unsolved mystery. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2759597/ /pubmed/19823650 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.38576 Text en © Indian Journal of Orthopaedics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759597/
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