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Torsion of the Femur

1958; Wolters Kluwer; Volume: 40; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2106/00004623-195840040-00005

1535-1386

Alfred R. Shands, MARSHALL K. STEELE,

Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty

1. Fourteen hundred and nine femoral-torsion studies were done on 584 children. 2. Graphs for the average normal torsion of the femur and the average normal angle of inclination (shaft-neck angle) were made for 238 children from three months to sixteen years of age. 3. The significant femoral-torsion information on forty-five cases of congenital dislocation of the hip was reported. 4. In 1409 femoral-torsion studies on 584 children, increased femoral torsion was present in more than one-half of the patients with moderate or marked coxa valga. 5. Six of forty hips with coxa plana (15 per cent) showed increased femoral torsion. 6. A definite decrease in femoral torsion was found in ten hips in seven patients with congenital and developmental coxa vara. 7. Eleven patients with pigeon-toe, internal tibial torsion, and constracture of the internal rotators of the hip showed an increased reading of femoral torsion, but the sample is too small to be statistically significant.