Ss. Desai et Lo. Johnson, LONG-TERM RESULTS OF VALGUS OSTEOTOMY FOR CONGENITAL COXA VARA, Clinical orthopaedics and related research, (294), 1993, pp. 204-210
Twenty hips (12 patients) with congenital coxa vara, treated with valg
us subtrochanteric osteotomy, were reviewed retrospectively. The avera
ge Hilgenreiner-epiphyseal (HE) and head-shaft (HS) angles at the init
ial evaluation were 66-degrees and 96-degrees, respectively. The avera
ge postoperative follow-up time was 20 years. Five of the 12 hips with
trochanteric overgrowth had abductor weakness. A postoperative HE ang
le of 35-degrees or less and a HS angle of 130-degrees or more was cor
related with consistently satisfactory results.