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Tibial Rotation-Plasty for Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency

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Congenital Lower Limb Deficiencies

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Management of patients with proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD) presents a unique challenge to orthopedic surgeons. In general, children with lower extremity skeletal deficiencies suffer four major biomechanical losses: limb-length inequality, malrotation, inadequacy of proximal musculature, and instability of proximal joints.1 In PFFD patients these losses are particularly well exemplified; therefore, efforts to correct, or compensate for, these biomechanical losses should constitute the basis of a treatment program.

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    Ali Kalamchi M.D., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S.

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Kritter, A.E. (1989). Tibial Rotation-Plasty for Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency. In: Kalamchi, A. (eds) Congenital Lower Limb Deficiencies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8882-1_9

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