Genu Valgum in Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease Treated with Femoral Varus Osteotomy

The Long Term Results of Femoral Varus Osteotomy in Patients with Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease

Femoral varus osteotomy (FVO) has been widely used in the surgical treatment of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease (LCPD). Axer in 1965 reviewed FVO as a treatment of LCPD and reported a very favorable results comparing with those observed after conservative treatment. Since then, many authors have demonstrated that it can prevent femoral head deformity and restore spherical congruity, provided that th...

Clinical Outcome of Femoral Osteotomy in Patients with Legg-Calve´-Perthes Disease

  Background: Legg-Calve´-Perthes disease is a juvenile idiopathic osteonecrosis in which the blood supply of femoral head is not sufficient and the bone dies provisionally. The aim of this study is to evaluate outcome of Femoral osteotomy in children with LCPD in our University Hospital.   Methods: In a descriptive analytic study, between 2008 and 2013, patients with the diagnosis of Legg-Calv...

A simple technique for varus supracondylar osteotomy in genu valgum.

Varus osteotomy of the distal femur is recommended for osteoarthritis of the knee with significant valgus deformity, but the operation is difficult to plan and perform. A simple technique involving a jig referenced to the line of the tibia is described. This allows accurate overcorrection by a few degrees, with impaction and secure fixation at the osteotomy. It has been successful, with no comp...

Osteochondritis dissecans following Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease.

Editorial LEGG - CALVÉ - PERTHES DISEASE : 100 YEARS

Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) started to be studied 100 years ago (1910), thanks to the advent of the possibility of conducting clinical studies by means of radiographic images (1895). However, many questions remain open, both in relation to the etiology of this orthopedic condition and in relation to which therapeutic measures are valid. Thus, great controversy has been generated. In 1910,...