DISTAL FEMORAL PHYSIOLYSIS IN RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY - SUCCESSFUL NONOPERATIVE TREATMENT OF 3 CASES FOLLOWED FOR 5 YEARS

Authors
SWIERSTRA BA DIEPSTRATEN AFM VANDERHEYDEN BJ
Citation
Ba. Swierstra et al., DISTAL FEMORAL PHYSIOLYSIS IN RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY - SUCCESSFUL NONOPERATIVE TREATMENT OF 3 CASES FOLLOWED FOR 5 YEARS, Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica, 64(3), 1993, pp. 382-384
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Orthopedics
Journal title
Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00016470
Volume
64
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
382 - 384
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-6470(1993)64:3<382:DFPIRO>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Slippage of 5 distal femoral epiphyses in 3 children with renal osteod ystrophy was successfully treated without operation. During optimal me dical treatment and plaster immobilization of the knee, remodelling to ok place by reorientation of the growth plate.