Short Leg

The short leg in poliomyelitis.

In the literature on poliomyelitis references to the occurrence of leg shortening are frequent, particularly in the older text-books on orthopaedic surgery. These references are usually short statements unsupported by clinical details. It is perhaps not surprising that the opinions expressed are conflicting. I have found five papers in which studies of a series of patients have been made. Barr ...

A One-Piece Laminated Knee Locking Short Leg Brace*

Actico: a short-stretch bandage in venous leg ulcer management.

Actico compression bandage system (Activa Healthcare) completes the prevention and treatment regime of venous leg ulcer management. Actico gives the patient comfort by being a simple two-layer compression bandage system that is also effective and which stays in place because of its cohesive nature. This product focus looks at the impact of venous leg ulcers, the use of compression and focuses o...

Leg lengthening for short stature in Turner's syndrome.

We describe ten patients with Turner's syndrome (karyotype 45, XO) who had leg lengthening for short stature. A high incidence of postoperative complications was encountered and many patients required intramedullary fixation as a salvage procedure. We discuss the reasons for this and highlight the differences between our findings and those of a similar series recently reported. In view of the c...

Short reports Malignant mesenchymoma of the lower leg

A 24 year old man had a two year history of a painless mass on his right popliteal region. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a 6 × 8 cm tumour mass in the lateral gastrocunemius. Histological examination of the tumour resected by radical surgery revealed that it consisted of myoblastic sarcoma and chondrosarcoma. Immunohistochemical studies were positive for Ki-67 and p53 throughout the a...