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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1945;27:25-36.
© 1945 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

RETARDATION OF BONE GROWTH BY A WIRE LOOP

S. L. HAAS M.D.1

1 Surgical Laboratory, Stanford Medical School, and Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, San Francisco

A wire encircling the epiphyseal cartilaginous plate in the frontal plane will stop length growth from that plate.

Growth may be controlled by a wire loop, by alternately stopping and allowing normal growth as the loop is tied or untied.

Length-growth equalization may be started at an earlier age.

Unilateral growth may he counteracted by a wire loop around the plate on the side of overgrowth.

The operation should not be performed until sufficient ossification of the epiphysis has taken place,—that is, after about eight years of age.


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