A rare case of tibial hemimelia, surgical technique and clinical results

We report a nine-year-old boy with a type IIIa tibial hemimelia, according to the new Paley classification. We describe the x-ray findings, the surgical treatment technique, and the prognostic course of the patient. Descriptions of such cases are very infrequent in the literature and type of treatme...

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Autores principales: Basso, Marco, Camurri, Valentina, Frediani, Piero, Boero, Silvio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29248252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aott.2017.11.004
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Sumario:We report a nine-year-old boy with a type IIIa tibial hemimelia, according to the new Paley classification. We describe the x-ray findings, the surgical treatment technique, and the prognostic course of the patient. Descriptions of such cases are very infrequent in the literature and type of treatment is still object of debate.

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