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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1949;31:478-500.
© 1949 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

PREDICTION OF UNEQUAL GROWTH OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES IN ANTERIOR POLIOMYELITIS

Allan J. Stinchfield M.D.1, John A. Reidy M.D.1, and Joseph S. Barr M.D.1

1 Infantile Paralysis Clinic, Orthopaedic Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Of 166 adults in whom poliomyelitis developed before the age of eleven, varying degrees of muscle power and shortening were present in the lower extremities. There was no specific relationship between the age of onset and the amount of discrepancy in limb length. There was, however, a definite relationship between the relative muscle strength in the two extremities and the discrepancy in limb length. These data may be utilized clinically in predicting the amount of shortening that will occur in a patient having poliomyelitis before the age of eleven.


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