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4 years later

Blount’s Disease

• A disorder of growth of the tibia involving the proximal epiphysis and resulting in bowing and leg shortening. Various types are recognized, including infantile, adolescent and late onset varieties.
• Radiographyically, the changes are similar to those of physiologic bowing but are more severe, and the tibia, rather than the knee, is in varus position with the shaft adducted without intrinsic curvature.
• The adolescent variety, adolescent (or juvenile) tibia vara, develops from unknown causes, although an arrest of epiphyseal growth, trauma or infection may be responsible. A bony bridge may be present between the epiphysis and metaphysis on conventional tomography.