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Tibia vara

Known as: Osteochondrosis of Blount, Blount disease, Blount's Disease 
A growth disorder of the tibia in children and adolescents that presents as progressive bowing of one or both legs.
National Institutes of Health

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Broader (2)

Bone Diseases, DevelopmentalOsteochondrosis
Connective and Soft TissueDevelopmental DisabilitiesFamilial Osteochondritis DissecansJuvenile osteochondrosis of tibial tubercle

Narrower (1)

OSTEOCHONDROSIS DEFORMANS TIBIAE, FAMILIAL INFANTILE TYPE

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2009
2009
Hemiepiphyseodesis for Late-Onset Tibia Vara
Background: The amount of correction obtained with tibial and/or femoral hemiepiphyseodesis in late-onset tibia vara is quite… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Treatment of Tibia Vara by the Ilizarov Method
Sixty-nine lower extremities of 45 patients (mean age, 10 years 8 months) with tibia vara were treated with the Ilizarov circular… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
A dynamic biomechanical analysis of the etiology of adolescent tibia vara.
Biomechanical overload of the proximal tibial physis due to static varus alignment and excessive body weight has been implicated… 
1993
1993
Treatment of adolescent tibia vara by asymmetrical physeal distraction.
We have treated 12 adolescent patients with idiopathic tibia vara by asymmetrical physeal distraction using a modified Wagner… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Adolescent tibia vara: alternatives for operative treatment.
We reviewed the cases of fifteen obese patients (twenty-one extremities) who had had adolescent tibia vara and had been followed… 
1991
1991
Late‐Onset Tibia Vara
Fifteen children with late-onset tibia vara were studied. There were seven unilateral and eight bilateral cases. Eleven children… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Position and Movement Changes of the Foot with Orthotic Intervention during the Loading Response of Gait.
Foot orthotics have proven to be an effective means of reducing clinical symptoms in the lower limb. Kinematic studies of runners… 
1988
1988
Late-onset tibia vara: a histopathologic analysis. A comparative evaluation with infantile tibia vara and slipped capital femoral epiphysis.
Histopathologic and histochemical studies were performed on the entire physes and contiguous structures of five knees (three… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
The Evolution and Histopathology of Adolescent Tibia Vara
This clinical, radiographic, and histologic study clarifies the evolution of the distinct clinical and radiographic disorder… 
1963
1963
OBSERVATIONS ON THE ETIOLOGY OF TIBIA VARA
1. Twenty-eight cases of the infantile and three cases of the adolescent type of tibia vara occurring in West Indian Negroes are… 
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