Comprehensive Treatment of Late-Onset Tibia Vara

Comprehensive treatment of late-onset tibia vara.

BACKGROUND Late-onset tibia vara (Blount disease) can be difficult to treat because of frequent morbid obesity and associated deformities, including distal femoral varus, proximal tibial procurvatum, and distal tibial valgus, that contribute to lower extremity malalignment. We present a comprehensive approach that addresses all components of the deformity and allows restoration of the anatomic ...

Evaluation of treatment of late-onset tibia vara using gradual angulation translation high tibial osteotomy.

Late-onset tibia vara or Blount's disease is the most common cause of pathologic genu varum in children and adolescents. Treatment remains controversial. Many studies in the past have shown that an osteotomy with acute correction is the most appropriate treatment. More recently however, there has been a growing interest, especially in severe cases, in using gradual correction with the Ilizarov ...

Does langenskiold staging have a good prognostic value in late onset tibia vara?

BACKGROUND Although many literature studied the effect of many factors on the prognosis of the early-onset Blount disease, studies that were written on the prognostic factors affecting late onset tibia vara are still limited. PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate the prognostic value of the Langenskiold classification system for late onset tibia vara. METHODS Twenty children from the...

Infantile tibia vara.

Annotations on the etiology and treatment of tibia vara.

Tibia vara was first reported by Erlacher (1922) and later fully described by Blount (1937), after whom the disorder is usually named. Only about 150 cases in all have been reported in the literature. The disease is therefore relatively uncommon and it seems to have a geographic distribution. occurring chiefly in and around the Caribbean. The condition consists essentially in the development in...