A treatise on orthopedic surgery . ay picture and in which the continuity of the bone ispreserved has a manifest advantage over a simple osteotomy inwhich there is danger of displacement of the fragments. Inordinary cases of this class, according to the writers experience,the cure is absolute, both as to symptoms and to function. The opi^ortunity for treatment of coxa vara in earliest child-hood is rarely offered. It is usually the direct result of rha-chitis, and it is probably always accompanied by other rhachitic CONGENITAL DISLOCATION OF HIP AND COXA VAEA. 585 distortions. It would be well
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . ay picture and in which the continuity of the bone ispreserved has a manifest advantage over a simple osteotomy inwhich there is danger of displacement of the fragments. Inordinary cases of this class, according to the writers experience,the cure is absolute, both as to symptoms and to function. The opi^ortunity for treatment of coxa vara in earliest child-hood is rarely offered. It is usually the direct result of rha-chitis, and it is probably always accompanied by other rhachitic CONGENITAL DISLOCATION OF HIP AND COXA VAEA. 585 distortions. It would be well, therefore, to examiiie the hip-joints of rhachitic children, especially those who present thedeformity of genu valgum with reference to this distortion. FRACTURE OF THE NECK OF THE FEMUR. Traumatic Coxa Vara.—Fracture of the neck of the femurin childhood, although until recently unrecognized, is by nomeans uncommon. More than 50 cases have come under thewriters observation since 1890 when he first called attention to Fig.
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