Tibia Vara (Osteochondrosis Deformans Tibiae or Blount's Disease): Treatment and Follow-up Examination

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 ...

Guided growth for tibia vara (Blount's disease)

Blount's disease is commonly attributed to an intrinsic, idiopathic defect in the posteromedial proximal tibial physis resulting in progressive bowing of the leg, intoeing, and lateral knee thrust. Treatment has historically included bracing, physeal stapling, or corrective osteotomy, and was determined primarily by age at presentation. As we feel the pathology is not necessarily age dependent,...

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...

Femoral deformity in tibia vara.

BACKGROUND Previous studies have suggested that compensatory valgus deformity of the femur is common in patients with tibia vara, or Blount disease. The availability and routine use of standing long-cassette radiographs of the lower extremities to assess angular deformities has allowed quantitative evaluation of this hypothesis. METHODS The cases of all patients with tibia vara, two years of ...