Infantile Blount's Disease (tibia vara) - Orthobullets
网页2022年11月14日 · Infantile Blount's disease is progressive pathologic genu varum centered at the tibia in children 2 to 5 years of age. Diagnosis is suspected clinically with presence of a genu varum/flexion/internal rotation deformity and confirmed radiographically with an increased metaphyseal-diaphyseal angle.
Adolescent Blount's Disease - Pediatrics - Orthobullets
网页2023年12月29日 · Adolescent Blount's Disease is a progressive, pathologic genu varum centered at the tibia in children > 10 years of age. Diagnosis is made clinically with presence of a genu varum deformity and confirmed radiographically with an increased metaphyseal-diaphyseal angle.
Bowed Legs (Genu Varum, Blount's Disease) - OrthoInfo - AAOS
网页The most common symptom of bowed legs is an awkward walking pattern. Toddlers with bowed legs usually have normal coordination and are not delayed in learning how to walk. The amount of bowing can be significant, however, and can be quite alarming to parents and family members.
Pediatric Genu Varum - Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
网页Pediatric Genu Varum. - Discussion: - most commonly presents at 14 to 36-months; - bowleg deformity in children w/ short stature & may indicate skeletal dysplasia; - developmental knee alignment: - normal knee alignment progresses from 10-15 deg of varus at birth to maximal valgus angulation of 10-15 deg at age of 3-3.5 yrs;
Approach to the child with bow-legs - UpToDate
网页2023年10月17日 · Bow-legs (genu varum) is an angular deformity at the knee where the apex of the deformity points away from the midline (figure 1). Knock-knees (genu valgum) are an angular deformity at the knee where the apex of the deformity points toward the midline (figure 1). Bow-legs and knock-knees are among the …
Genu Varum in Children: Diagnosis and Treatment. - Orthobullets
网页Genu varum is a relatively common finding in children. Physiologic bowing, which is seen most often, has a well-documented favorable natural history. Idiopathic tibia vara is the most common of the pathologic conditions that are associated with bowed legs; treatment strategies vary with the patient's age and the stage of disease and deformity.
网页physiologic genu varum and mild cases of early-onset Blount disease. Although assessing the metaphyseal-diaphyseal angle (MDA) of the tibia in young children is useful in differentiating physio-logic genu varum from early-onset Blount disease, there is some variability in the landmarks used for measuring this angle. Auerbach and colleagues9
Blount Disease - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
网页2024年1月9日 · Blount disease, also known as tibia vara, is an acquired genu varus deformity in children that develops due to excessive compressive forces on the proximal medial metaphysis of the tibia, leading to altered enchondral bone formation. Blount disease can be either unilateral or bilateral and manifests in 2 forms—infantile and adolescent ...
Beyond Bowed Legs: Diagnosing and Treating Infantile Blount’s …
网页2022年11月6日 · The differential diagnosis for pathologic genu varum in children includes rickets, osteogenesis imperfecta, skeletal dysplasia (such as an epiphyseal dysplasia), a proximal tibial physeal injury, a focal fibrocartilaginous defect, or infantile Blount’s disease.
Pediatric Genu Varum - Medscape
网页Physiologic genu varum, defined as occurring in children younger than 2 years, is exceedingly common but is self-correcting. In contrast, pathologic genu varum, which is due to a...