TY  - JOUR
TI  - Treatment of a combined deformity following tibial tubercle ventromedialization with single proximal tibial closing wedge osteotomy
AB  - Patellar instability in skeletally immature patients must beapproached with concern of potential damage to physes. Inthis article, we present a case of combined knee deformityconsisting of genu recurvatum, genu valgum and patellabaja which arose subsequent to a pediatric tibial tubercleventromedialization. Patient was a female who was 22 yearsold upon first admission. After confirming cartilage to bein good health, the deformity was corrected with a singlesupratubercular posteriorly and medially based proximaltibial closing wedge osteotomy. At the seventh year follow-up,patient was pain free, functionally satisfied and radiographicevaluation showed correct alignment. This case illustrates theconsequent difficulties faced if physeal damage occurs duringtreatment of patellar instability as well as effectiveness of asingle well-planned supratubercular proximal tibial osteotomytreating combined genu recurvatum, genu valgum and patellabaja deformities; although anatomic and clinical studies arerequired to generalize its use.
AU  - Sezgin, Erdem Aras
AU  - Hangody, Laszlo
AU  - SZERB, Dr. Imre
AU  - Tóth, Zoltán
DO  - 10.5606/ehc.2019.19002
PY  - 2019
JO  - Eklem Hastalıkları ve Cerrahisi Dergisi (Eski Adı: Artroplasti Artroskopik Cerrahi Derg.)
VL  - 30
IS  - 3
SN  - 1305-8282
SP  - 316
EP  - 321
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/378470
ER  -