[Our Experience with Stephenson and Donovan's Operation when Dealing with Adduction Contractures in Infantile Cerebral Palsy.].
The authors evaluate 39 transpositions of adductors performed by Stephenson and Donovan's procedure in 1970-1992 in patients with infantile cerebral palsy. The authors consider this operation one of the basic ones, along with tenotomy of the adductors, when dealing with muscular disbalance and contractures in the area of the hip joint. Based on long-term experience the authors give the main indication of this operation, i.e. marked inner rotation of the hip associated with moderate adduction. They draw attention to the fact that if the operation is properly indicated, it can influence on a marked way the general posture, standing and gait of patients up to adolescent age. Key words: infantile cerebral palsy, tenotomy of adductors, transposition of adductors.
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Ortopedická klinika detí a dospelých 2. lékarské fakulty KU, Praha.
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