title: Double osteotomy operation in the surgical treatment of coxa plana disease.
abstract: During the years 1975 to 1982, what was named the double osteotomy--which is a combination of pelvic osteotomy together with subtrochanteric varus, extension and derotation osteotomy--was applied to 26 cases suffering from coxa plana (Perthes-Calvé-Legg disease). The postoperative follow up averages a period of three years and five months and was undertaken at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ankara, Turkey.
mesh_terms: D000077:Acetabulum / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000601:surgery; D005271:Femur Head Necrosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007873:Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods*; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011859:Radiography; D013997:Time Factors