Gillam, G. L., McNicol, K. N., and Williams, H. E. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 789. Chest deformity, residual airways obstruction and hyperinflation, and growth in children with asthma. Part II: Significance of chronic chest deformity. Studies were made on 56 10-11-year-old asthmatic children with onset of symptoms before 3 years of age, frequent and persistent attacks, and ob...

INTRODUCTION Bilateral Flexion Deformity commonly results secondary to cerebral palsy, poliomyelitis, haemophilia etc. It is accompanied by valgus deformity and external rotation at knee in long standing cases secondary to the contracture of the iliotibial tract. Flexion deformity at knees is an impediment to the normal ambulation and is difficult to address. CASE REPORT A 34 year old male pr...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there was any discrepancy in elbow flexion strength among patients with and without evident clinical deformity resulting from arthroscopic tenotomy on the long head of the biceps. METHOD A group of 120 patients who underwent this procedure were evaluated. After applying the exclusion criteria, 89 patients remained in the analysis. Eighteen months after the opera...

INTRODUCTION Temporo-mandibular joint ankylosis is a common cause of acquired deformity in children. PURPOSE Surgical correction of the ankylosis only leaves the patient with an uncorrected mandibular deformity. This study was to evaluate the use of distraction osteogenesis for simultaneous correction of the mandibular deformity. MATERIAL This study was done on six children with temporo-man...

PURPOSE A systematic review regarding clinical studies on Hegemann's disease and fishtail deformity was performed with the aims to: (1) formulate the most up-to-date theory on aetiology in order to better define these conditions, (2) summarise the most frequent radiographic descriptions on radiographs and (3) give an overview of different treatment options. METHODS A systematic review of stud...

We assessed pulmonary function in hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy. Fourteen neuropathy patients without spinal deformity (group 1), 14 with spinal deformity (group 2), and 16 individuals with idiopathic spinal deformity (group 3) matched to group 2 for age, height and Cobb angle, were included. Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy severity was measured with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neurop...

Scoliosis Research Society defined scoliosis deformity as a lateral curvature of the spine on a radiograph of the spine taken in standing position.1 The degree of the curve is measured as the angle between the most inclined vertebral end-plates at each end of the curve (the Cobb angle). There are many causes of scoliosis deformity. It can be structural due to spinal pathologies or non-structura...