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June 8, 2011Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research1,084 citations

The Chitranjan Ranawat Award: Is Neutral Mechanical Alignment Normal for All Patients?: The Concept of Constitutional Varus

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JBJohan BellemansWCWilliam ColynHVHilde Vandenneucker

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An important fraction of the normal population has a natural alignment at the end of growth of 3° varus or more. This might be a consequence of Hueter-Volkmann's law. Restoration of mechanical alignment to neutral in these cases may not be desirable and would be unnatural for them.

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Bellemans et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d6cb1bf174babf6cab38eehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-011-1936-5
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