Acute "three-in-one" surgery for the treatment of severe Blount's disease: Surgical technique and report of two cases.

The treatment of Blount's disease has historically remained controversial. All the described techniques for its treatment have their own advantages and disadvantages, and no consensus has been reached on a single surgical approach. The aim of this report is to share the early results of a combination technique in which we have collated three well-known surgical steps in one procedure.

Efficacy of aspiration and autogenous bone marrow injection in the treatment of simple bone cysts.

Twenty eight patients with simple bone cyst that were treated by aspiration and percutaneous autogenous bone marrow injection were reviewed to evaluate the treatment outcome. There were 18 boys and ten girls. Their mean age was 10.

Acetabular cartilaginous angle: a new method for predicting acetabular development in developmental dysplasia of the hip in children between 2 and 18 months of age.

Background: A new method of arthrographic measurement, the acetabular cartilaginous angle (ACA), is described here in an effort to find a simple, reliable, and reproducible measurement that can predict future acetabular development after successful closed reduction of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH).

Methods: A prospective study was conducted for children with DDH who were treated successfully by closed reduction in the authors' institute from 1994 through 2000. The total number of patients who completed the follow-up in our study until full acetabular development or acetabuloplasty was 162, with 234 affected hips.