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KMID : 0376219760130020335
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Chonnam Medical Journal
1976 Volume.13 No. 2 p.335 ~ p.338
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Tibiofemoral Angle of 21 Rachitic Children
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Abstract
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It has often been accepted that the varus position of a knee observed in normal infant and early childhood corrects spontaneously. Genu varus becomes, however, pronounced and extreme in children with rickets. For seven years up to July of 1976, 69 children were diagnosed to have rickets mostly of dietary origin 21 out of which could be selected to have precise clinical records including x-ray pictures of the lower extremity and put into this study. Tibiofemoral angle was measured in them and its clinical analysis was made according to the age of patient and the stage of disease.
1. All 21 children were between one and five years of age and ten of them between two and three.
2. Mean value of the tioiofemoral angle in each age group did not prove to have gradual decrease according to the increase of the age.
3. Mean tibiofemoral angle grouped into each stage of the disease also did not show any tendency of gradual decrease.
4. It is obvious from this study that the genu varus of rachitic children may not correct spontaneously as they grow older and so an active correction is indicated for the varus knee of severe and persistent type in them.
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