Abstract
Despite surgical advances in fracture management, it is not uncommon to find pediatric or adolescent patients with elbow deformities. Correction of severe deformities, often leaves the ingenuity of the treating surgeon asking for more. Various osteotomy techniques have been described in the literature for the correction of elbow deformities. Although, the concept of dome osteotomy did address certain inadequacies of the existing osteotomy techniques for distal humerus, but correction of complex deformities associated with deformation of trochlea and olecranon fossa still remain a surgical challenge which has not been adequately addressed in the literature so far. Our experience with the existing osteotomies for distal humerus led to the development of a new surgical technique of shortening dome osteotomy for correction of such complex multiplanar elbow deformities. Surgical steps, indications, and expected outcome is described.
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