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Published on: April 11, 2012
Management of forme fruste fibular hemimelia
1Department of Orthopaedics, University of Aberdeen Medical School, Scotland.
Abstract:
Children with fibular hypoplasia and three-or four-ray feet have a forme fruste of congenital short tibia with absent or dysplastic fibula. We outline the criteria for management of this condition. Although fibular deficiency can be considered benign, two thirds of our patients underwent operation. Leg length inequality may require epiphysiodesis, leg lengthening, or simply a shoe raise. Only very occasionally, when the foot is nonfunctional, is amputation through the ankle undertaken.

