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Secondary forearm deformity due to injury to the distal ulnar physis
F Collado-Torres1, P Zamora-Navas, F de la Torre-Solis
1Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hospital General Básico de la Axarquía, Vélez-Málaga, Spain.
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
We present a case of deformity of the forearm with painful functional limitation, after a fracture of the distal third of the radius associated with a nonapparent lesion of the distal physis of the ulna, Salter-Harris type V, suffered by a patient 6 years earlier. This fracture caused premature growth arrest in the bone. It was treated with a plane-oblique corrective osteotomy in the radius together with distal radio-ulnar arthrodesis, following the Sauvé-Kapandji technique, with excellent cosmetic and functional results.