title: Successful treatment of valgus deformity of the knee with an open supracondylar osteotomy using a coral wedge: a brief report of two cases.
abstract: We present the clinical and radiological results of two patients with valgus deformity of the knee who underwent an open supracondylar osteotomy of the femur. A biocoral wedge was inserted in the lateral aspect of the osteotomy to maintain the correction without internal fixation. At 15 and 13 months, respectively, after the operation, tomograms showed correction of the deformity, sound healing of the osteotomy, partial absorption of the coral with complete incorporation of the graft within the bone and no complications.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedic Unit, Solihull Hospital, Solihull, UK
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Nicolaides
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Papanikolaou
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Polyzoides