Late effects of poliomyelitis--a review of osteogenic capacity.
A review of 283 patients with late effects of poliomyelitis affecting the limbs revealed no evidence of heterotopic new bone formation, or of greater than normal callus/new bone formation around fractures and osteotomies. It is suggested, in contradiction to the published tradition, that poliomyelitis does not encourage the formation of new bone to any significant extent.
Naude
R J
RJ
Department of Orthopaedics, University of Natal, Durban.
Spencer
R F
RF
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010012:Osteogenesis; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013997:Time Factors