A treatise on orthopedic surgery . he inner tuberosity of the tibiabear the greater part of the weight; the outer condyle is on thesame level or somewhat lower than the internal, and the outertuberosity of the tibia may be somewhat higher than the inter-nal. The femur is abducted and rotated outward; the tibia isrotated inward. These changes, it will be noted, are the reverseof those found in genu valgum. As has been stated, the de-formity of genu valgum disappears on flexion, and in genuvarum, if the limbs are flexed and the knees are placed in con-tact with one another, the malleoli may be a
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . he inner tuberosity of the tibiabear the greater part of the weight; the outer condyle is on thesame level or somewhat lower than the internal, and the outertuberosity of the tibia may be somewhat higher than the inter-nal. The femur is abducted and rotated outward; the tibia isrotated inward. These changes, it will be noted, are the reverseof those found in genu valgum. As has been stated, the de-formity of genu valgum disappears on flexion, and in genuvarum, if the limbs are flexed and the knees are placed in con-tact with one another, the malleoli may be actually separated, Zeits. f. Orth. Chir. 616 ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY. simulating the deformity of knock-knee (Fig. 411). This isexplained by the inward rotation of the femora, necessitated byplacing the knees in contact with one another. In genu varum the distortion of the bones is not as strictlyconfined to the neighborhood of the knee-joint as in genu val-gum, and in simple bow-leg there is almost always a certain Fig. 410. Fig.
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