title: [Surgical therapy of severe knee flexion and hip flexion contractures in caudal regression syndrome].
abstract: In severe cases of caudal-regression syndrome one usually can find hip-flexion and knee-flexion-contractures, which can hardly be treated. We report about a new possibility of operative treatment. In this case we correct the contractures with a shortening of the proximal part of the femur and with a resection-arthrodesis of the knee-joint. The clinical result, which we obtained by this way, allows the orthotic management with an orthoprosthesis. The maintaining mobility of the hip joint and the sitting-comfort is very sufficient.
authors.affiliation: Stiftung Orthopädische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carstens
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marquardt
mesh_terms: D001915:Braces; D002648:Child; D003286:Contracture / Q000601:surgery*; D005269:Femur / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000002:abnormalities*; D008297:Male; D010027:Osteotomy; D013577:Syndrome
vernacular_title: Die operative Therapie schwerer Kniebeuge- und Hüftbeugekontrakturen beim kaudalen Regressionssyndrom.