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Congenital coxa vara is an abnormal decrease in the femoral neck-shaft angle in children that is caused by a primarily cartilaginous defect in the developing femoral neck. Children often present with a limp, external rotation of the leg, and it can be associated with other skeletal dysplasias. Surgical treatment is often a valgus osteotomy. Timing is dependent on the degree of acetabular dysplasia and patient age.
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Tachdjian MO, et al. Congenital coxa vara. In: Tachdjian’s pediatric orthopedics. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders/Elsevier; 2008. p. 897–901. Print.
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Sheppard, E., Estes, R. (2017). Congenital Coxa Vara. In: Eltorai, A., Eberson, C., Daniels, A. (eds) Orthopedic Surgery Clerkship. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52567-9_114
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