[Updates on rickets and osteomalacia: surgical treatment for rickets/osteomalacia].
In general, surgical treatments are indicated for severe extremity deformities due to impaired bone growth and fractures due to bone fragility in rickets/osteomalacia patients. Corrective osteotomy and fixation with external fixators, Kirshner's wires, intramedullary nail, plates and casting including epiphysiodesis is performed. For tumor induced osteomalacia patients, excision of causative tumor is indispensable as definitive therapy. In this article, surgical treatments were updated especially for tumor induced osteomalacia.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Hirotaka
H
Kawano
D016267:External Fixators / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009372:Neoplasms, Connective Tissue / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D010018:Osteomalacia; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes; D012279:Rickets / Q000601:surgery*; D013977:Tibia / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome