Blount's disease: The importance of early diagnosis and early treatment

The purpose of this image is to raise awareness of the early diagnosis and treatment of Blount's disease. Failure to distinguish between physiologic genu varum and early onset of Blount's disease can lead to irreversible outcomes, including progressive deformity with gait deviations, limb‐...

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Autores principales: Delniotis, Ioannis, Leidinger, Benedikt, Kyriakou, Aikaterini, Galanis, Nikiforos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6637330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31360512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2214
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author Delniotis, Ioannis
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description The purpose of this image is to raise awareness of the early diagnosis and treatment of Blount's disease. Failure to distinguish between physiologic genu varum and early onset of Blount's disease can lead to irreversible outcomes, including progressive deformity with gait deviations, limb‐length discrepancy, and premature arthritis of the knee.
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spelling pubmed-66373302019-07-29 Blount's disease: The importance of early diagnosis and early treatment Delniotis, Ioannis Leidinger, Benedikt Kyriakou, Aikaterini Galanis, Nikiforos Clin Case Rep Clinical Images The purpose of this image is to raise awareness of the early diagnosis and treatment of Blount's disease. Failure to distinguish between physiologic genu varum and early onset of Blount's disease can lead to irreversible outcomes, including progressive deformity with gait deviations, limb‐length discrepancy, and premature arthritis of the knee. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6637330/ /pubmed/31360512 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2214 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits 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/PMC6637330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31360512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2214
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