J Korean Orthop Assoc.  1970 Dec;5(4):201-205. 10.4055/jkoa.1970.5.4.201.

Surgical Treatment for Marked Deformity of Hip and Knee as Residua of Poliomyelitis

• Yoo CI
• Moon MS

• KMID: 2464379
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4055/jkoa.1970.5.4.201

Abstract

We experience still a number of cases of residual polipmyelitis with severe deformities which have not been treated for more than 10 years in Korea. During the period of January to August in 1970, 40 cases of residual poliomyelitis had corrective operations performed at Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Pusan National University Hospital. Among those Two cases showed extreme deformities of hips and knees, having not been treated at all for past 18 years. There were flexion contractures of hips 50/80(Rt/Lt) and knees 90/90 in case 1 and flextion contractures of hips 75/90 and knees 80/100 in case 2. Various controversial methods of surgical treatment have been described since 1914 when Soutter introduced a procedure for flexion contracture. In case 1 the procedures of Soutter and Yount, division of the hamstring tendons and posterior capsulotomy of knee were performed by the authors. The bilateral contractures were not corrected completely and the residual deformities remained. In case 2 a compelet correction was obtained by release of iliopsoas insertion and supracondylar osteotomy combined with the operations done in case 1. From this clinical observation the authors reached to the conclusion that the release of insertion of iliopsoas muscle and supracondylar osteotomy are the essential procedures for correction of flexion contracture of hip and knee.

MeSH Terms

Busan
Congenital Abnormalities*
Contracture
Hip*
Knee*
Korea
Orthopedics
Osteotomy
Poliomyelitis*
Posterior Capsulotomy
Tendons