Review of 20 years of surgical treatment of deformity of foot cervix and club foot combining with orthopadic equipment and external fixation.
- Author:
To Van Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
foot
- MeSH:
Therapeutics;
Foot;
surgery
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1999;233(2):20-22
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Center for the trauma and orthopady treated 200 cases of foot deformity in which 1,500 cases received operations. Most of them were congenital club foot (70%) followed by club food due to the polio fever(20%) due to the brain paralysis (5%) and due to arthrogrip ossis (5%). The orthopadic equipments were applied for 35 cases. The equipment was used within 5 weeks and continuously fixed by gypsum up to 3 months from the day of operation.
