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Physeal injuries in myelomeningocele patients
A Cuxart1, J Iborra, M Meléndez
1Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Hospital de Traumatologia y Rehabilitacion, Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract:
Epiphysiolysis from a series of 253 patients under regular control in the Spina Bifida Unit at our hospital has been analysed from 1967 to the present time. From that total there have been 18 physeal fractures in 9 of the myelomeningocele patients. The clinical characteristics, diagnostic difficulties and therapeutic criteria for this type of lesion are considered, and we suggest the need to use suitable orthoses whenever the patient is able to walk, and to temporarily increase the level of orthotisation in patients if the physis of the knee is affected.

