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Calf lengthening may improve knee recurvatum in specific children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy

PURPOSE: Knee hyperextension in stance is a difficult condition to treat in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (CP). In children with passive knee hyperextension, the presence of contracture or spasticity of the calf leads to knee hyperextension in stance phase. We hypothesize surgical tr...

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Autores principales: Bauer, Jeremy, Do, K. Patrick, Feng, Jing, Aiona, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/1863-2548.14.200092