BILATERAL CONGENITAL CONTRACTURE OF THE ILIO-TIBIAL TRACT

1 August 1972

journal article
Published by British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume

Vol. 54-B (3) , 532-534
https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620x.54b3.532

Abstract

1. A case is described of bilateral congenital contracture of the ilio-tibial bands in a healthy girl of ten months. 2. With the hips extended each lower limb was held in about 25 degrees of fixed abduction. 3. Division of the ilio-tibial bands abolished the abduction contractures.

Keywords

BILATERAL CONGENITAL
CONGENITAL CONTRACTURE
ILIO TIBIAL
ABDUCTION CONTRACTURES
BANDS ABOLISHED
FIXED ABDUCTION.3