![]() ![]() The one current clinical feature that they often share is patient obesity, which complicates treatment, if not actually causes or accelerates the primary deformity. Radiographic appearance, the extent of epiphyseal and physeal distortion, secondary and adaptive radiographic deformities, short- and long-term natural history, and conservative and surgical treatment options may differ distinctly between the two conditions. Although both forms are often referred to as (infantile and adolescent) Blount’s disease, the conditions share little except for varus deformity of the proximal tibia. 103(1):1–22, 1952), relatively little progress has been made to understand the etiology of either condition. ![]() Since the description of childhood (“infantile”) and adolescent idiopathic (usually) progressive varus deformity of the proximal tibia by Blount (J Bone Joint Surg. ![]()
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