BACKGROUND Surgical revision concepts for the treatment of aseptic humeral, femoral, and tibial diaphyseal nonunion were evaluated. It was analyzed if the range of time to bone healing was shorter, and if clinical and radiological long-term outcome was better following application of additional recombinant human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-7 (rhBMP-7) compared to no additional rhBMP-7 use. MET...

Torsional deformities of the femur and/or tibia often go unrecognized in adolescents and adults who present with anterior knee pain, and patellar maltracking or instability. While open and arthroscopic surgical techniques have evolved to address these problems, unrecognized torsion may compromise the outcomes of these procedures. We collected a group of 16 consecutive patients (23 knees), with ...

Varus deformity at the upper end of the tibia was reported by Erlacher (1922) and LUlsdorf (1931), who considered it to be a type of osteochondritis. Blount (1937) presented a personal series of thirt en cases and reviewed fifteen cases from the literature. He called the condition tibia vara and suggested that the term osteochondrosis was more appropriate than osteochondritis. Further reports o...

Background: Toe in gait may be due to metatarsus adductus, increase tibia torsion and femoral anteversion. It is controversial that it influences on standing stability or not. Therefore, the aim of this study was evaluate effects toe gait, head anteversion, stability. Method: 11 subjects with anteversion were recruited study. There also a control group matched group. A Kistler force plate used ...

The use of external fixation devices in orthopedic surgery is very common in open tibial fractures. A properly applied fixator may improve the healing process while one improperly applied might delay the healing process. The several external fixator systems used in clinical today, can be categorized into uniplanar-unilateral, uniplanar-bilateral, biplanar and multiplanar. The stability on the f...

we present a case of unilateral tibia vara associated with an area of focal fibrocartilaginous dysplasia in the medial aspect of the right proximal tibia. such a case has not been described previously. the affected child was 8 months old. deformity resolved without aggressive treatment. the pathogenesis of the focal lesion remains controversial. the most likely explanation is that the mesenchym...