Preventive treatment of congenital pseudarthrosis of tibia.
If an osteotomy is carried out in a child with congenital angulation of the tibia with segmental sclerosis, a pseudarthrosis develops in many cases. This should be prevented by a bone-graft operation along the concave side of the tibia. The results described illustrate this contention.
D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D011542:Pseudarthrosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012598:Sclerosis; D013977:Tibia / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous