Abstract

Physeal Injury during Distal Femoral Osteotomy in Deformity Correction for Genu Valgum

Author(s): R. C. S. Khandelwal, Kishore Kumar and Abhinav Jogani

Genu valgum is one of the most common lower limb deformities to present in an orthopaedic outpatient clinic.1) Medial Closed wedge osteotomy (Coventry type) is one the standard methods of surgical treatment to correct genu valgum. Other methods of surgical correction include lateral opening wedge osteotomy, dome osteotomy, Illizarov’s distraction method and hemiephiphysiodesis. Being simple reproducible technique medial closed wedge osteotomy is widely used.2) Here we report an inadvertent complication, Salter-harris type 4 physeal injury during medial closed wedge osteotomy.3).