Abstract
15May 2017 TIBIALHEMIMELIA; DO WE NEED A MODIFICATION OF THE CURRENTLY USED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS? Abdelaal. Ahmed Hamed Kassem , Morsy. Ahmad Fawaz. Ashraf RashadMarzouk. and Ahmed Sleem. Assistant lecturer of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt. Lecturer of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt. Lecturerof Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt.
Highlights
Tibial hemimelia is a rare congenital anomaly, it may Received: 05 March 2017 Final Accepted: 07 April 2017 Published: May 2017 occur in isolated form or combined with other congenital anomalies
We suggest modification of the current classification systems for tibial hemimelia to include complete diastasis of tibia and fibula as a variant
Different classification systems had been used for classification of tibial hemimelia
Summary
Tibial hemimelia is a rare congenital anomaly, it may Received: 05 March 2017 Final Accepted: 07 April 2017 Published: May 2017 occur in isolated form or combined with other congenital anomalies. While inferior tibiofibular joint diastasis is a well-known accompanying deformity in subtypes of different classification systems; complete Case 2: A four weeks old boy with a partial distal diastasis of tibia and fibula from the level of mid leg downward, with almost completely separate skin envelop for each part of the bone.
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