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Tibial Agenesis
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Tibial Agenesis

Marwan A Wehbé, Stuart L Weinstein and Ignacio V Ponseti
Journal of pediatric orthopaedics, Vol.1(4), pp.395-400
12/1981
DOI: 10.1097/01241398-198112000-00007
PMID: 7334118

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Abstract

Tibial agenesis is a congenital defect involving major anomalies of both knee and ankle joints, as well as of the adjacent musculotendinous units. A neoarthrosis at the knee joint was formed in two patients by centralizing the fibular head into the inter condylar notch. A neoarthrosis was also formed at the ankle joint by performing a talectomy and displacing the lateral malleolus over the calcaneus. This allowed independent ambulation in both patients, thus avoiding arthrodesis or amputation.

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