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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…

Fig. 20.1 (a) Radiograph of the ankle of a 7-year-old boy with ankle pain. Note the eccentric lobulated contained lesion which thins the surrounding cortex. Biopsy at the time of…

Dysplasia Gene defect Mode of inheritance Diastrophic dysplasia DTDST gene (5q32-q33.1) AD Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) Type I Type II COMP (Chr19) COL9A2 AD, less commonly AR Pseudoachondroplasia COMP (chromosome…

Fig. 26.1 Congenital posteromedial bowing of the tibia in a newborn. The clinical and radiographic appearances of the posterior bow (a, b) and the medial bow (c, d) are clearly…

Type I: Tumor at diaphyseal location or metaphyseal location over 2 cm from the epiphyseal plate Type II: Tumor at metaphyseal location extending to less than half of the epiphyseal…

Fig. 11.1 The Silfverskiold test is used to determine the contribution of the gastrocnemius to the overall equinus contracture. The foot is dorsiflexed with the knee extended and then again…