Coronal Plane Guided Growth of the Lower Extremity

Nicholas P. Gannon; Patrick D. Albright; Andrew G. Georgiadis

doi:10.1016/j.oto.2021.100876

Coronal Plane Guided Growth of the Lower Extremity

Nicholas P. Gannon
, Patrick D. Albright
, Andrew G. Georgiadis

Orthopaedic Surgery

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Abstract

Congenital or acquired limb deformities in skeletally immature patients may be corrected with reversible hemiepiphysiodesis or “guided growth”. This involves temporary surgical implantation of an extra-periosteal implant which tethers one side of a growing physis. This fulcrum retards longitudinal physeal growth on the implanted side, allowing for preferential growth on the opposite. Multiple generations of implants have evolved for this purpose, and currently, the tension-band plate construct is the most widely used, most biomechanically sound, and does not involve direct trauma to the physis.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	100876
Journal	Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics
Volume	31
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oto.2021.100876
State	Published - Jun 1 2021

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The research is supported by the National Laboratory for Aeronautics and Astronautics at Beihang University and the August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor Program at Technical University of Munich.

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© 2021 Elsevier Inc.

Keywords

genu valgum
genu varum
leg length discrepancy

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