Surgical equalisation of leg length: shortening of the long femur and lengthening of the short in one operation.
The Author suggests a technique for surgical equalisation of leg length. When the discrepancy is around 4 cm the Author obtains equalisation by simultaneous shortening and lengthening by removing from the long femur a cylinder of bone equal to half the discrepancy and grafting it into the short femur. Two Küntscher nails are used to obtain fixation. The technique has been successfully used on 4 cases.
D000293:Adolescent; D001852:Bone Lengthening / Q000379:methods*; D005269:Femur / Q000601:surgery* / Q000637:transplantation; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006801:Humans; D007870:Leg Length Inequality / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male