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UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Post-Traumatic Limb Deformities in Children and Young Adults: A Global Perspective 2025

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(P: 214634) Now that the patient presents at age 14 with a procurvatum deformity and LLD of 5.9 cm (Figure G, H, I, J K), if you choose to correct deformity + lengthen short side, would you do it in a single procedure or staged procedure?

I would not choose to correct deformity + lengthen short side

1%

3/249

Single procedure

44%

110/249

Staged - Correct deformity 1st, then length short side at later date

46%

117/249

Staged - 1st lengthen short side, then correct deformity at later date

4%

11/249

Outside my area of expertise - best if I don't vote

3%

8/249

Obstetric Brachial Plexopathy (Erb's, Klumpke's Palsy)

PMID: 14974639 Dev Med Child Neurol. 2004 Feb;46(2):138-44.

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Natural history of obstetric brachial plexus palsy: a systematic review.

Natural history of obstetric brachial plexus palsy: a systematic review.

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Natural history of obstetric brachial plexus palsy: a systematic review.