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Lengthening of the lower limbs in achondroplastic patients. A comparative study of four techniques
R Aldegheri1, G Trivella, L Renzi-Brivio
1University of Verona, Institute of Clinical Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Italy.
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
We report our experience of lengthening by over 30% a total of 117 lower limbs in achondroplastic patients. We have compared four methods: transverse osteotomy, oblique osteotomy, callotasis of the shaft and chondrodiatasis of the epiphysis. Chrondrodiatasis of the femur and callotasis of the tibia are the techniques which gave fewest complications.