Marco BASSO, Valentina CAMURRİ, Piero FREDİANİ, Silvio BOERO

A rare case of tibial hemimelia, surgical technique and clinical results

We report a nine-year-old boy with a type IIIa tibial hemimelia, according to the new Paley classification.We describe the x-ray findings, the surgical treatment technique, and the prognostic course of the patient.Descriptions of such cases are very infrequent in the literature and type of treatment is still objectof debate

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