Tibia vara or Blount’s disease: Why an early diagnosis and treatment are important?

Tibia vara is an asymmetrical disorder of the proximal tibia that produces a threedimensional deformity, which was first described by Blount in 1937. A 6-year-old boy presented with a history of anterior knee pain with progressive bowing of his right leg over the last 1 year after having a fall whil...

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Autores principales: Vasiliadis, Angelo V., Maris, Alexandros, Gadikoppula, Srinivas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7221452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32419907
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2020.1222
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description Tibia vara is an asymmetrical disorder of the proximal tibia that produces a threedimensional deformity, which was first described by Blount in 1937. A 6-year-old boy presented with a history of anterior knee pain with progressive bowing of his right leg over the last 1 year after having a fall while playing soccer. An early diagnosis and treatment of this disease can have a great functional impact and lead to very good health outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-72214522020-05-15 Tibia vara or Blount’s disease: Why an early diagnosis and treatment are important? Vasiliadis, Angelo V. Maris, Alexandros Gadikoppula, Srinivas Clin Pract Case Report Tibia vara is an asymmetrical disorder of the proximal tibia that produces a threedimensional deformity, which was first described by Blount in 1937. A 6-year-old boy presented with a history of anterior knee pain with progressive bowing of his right leg over the last 1 year after having a fall while playing soccer. An early diagnosis and treatment of this disease can have a great functional impact and lead to very good health outcomes. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2020-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7221452/ /pubmed/32419907 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2020.1222 Text en ©Copyright: the Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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