[Experience with operative leg lengthening (author's transl)].
The author reports on 175 cases of leg lengthening operations for leg equalisation by means of Wagners and Andersons procedure. None of the occuring complications prevented the operation being successful. So the methods offer an useful alternative to shortening osteotomies and epiphysiodesis.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001852:Bone Lengthening; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004392:Dwarfism / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007870:Leg Length Inequality / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013977:Tibia / Q000601:surgery
Erfahrungen mit der operativen Beinverlängerung