Fig. 6.1 (a) Radiograph of a 7-year-old girl with Blount’s disease. Apex of the deformity is seen at the intersection of the two lines (red lines indicate the proximal and…

Fig. 17.1 GMFCS levels. Reproduced with permission from copyright © Kerr Graham, Bill Reid, and Adrienne Harvey, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne CP is also classified by the type of…

Fig. 13.1 (a) A young woman with proximal femoral deficiency. Her management was with Symes amputation and knee fusion. She is celebrating her first Paralympic gold medal in three-track skiing…

Fig. 9.1 The ISKD was found to be most useful for posttraumatic femoral length discrepancies Fig. 9.2 The ISKD and Albizzia nails are activated by manual limb rotation A new…

Age Gender Number of siblings Birth order Length of pregnancy Obstetric presentation Presence or absence of difficulty with delivery Birth weight As active or less active than siblings in utero…

Fig. 30.1 Four-year-old child with femur fracture treated by traction in a Thomas’ splint. (a) Injury film. (b) X-ray in Thomas’s splint. (c) At 2 months fracture united with 40°…

Fig. 24.1 Jones classification of tibial hemimelia Kalamchi and Dawe, in their study of 21 cases in 1985, proposed a modification to the Jones classification and the results of their…

Fig. 32.1 This segmental tibia fracture in an adolescent was treated with casting and went onto malunion. The patient subsequently developed knee and ankle osteoarthritis What Is Acceptable Alignment? There…

Fig. 27.1 Langenskiöld radiographic classification of infantile Blount’s disease. Langenskiöld described six presumably progressive radiographic stages of deformity in infantile Blount’s disease. Stage I is often difficult to distinguish from…

Group Type of involvement Group 1 Mainly limb involvement (four limbs, lower limbs or upper limbs) Group 2 Limbs are affected with involvement of other parts of the body Group…