Background and purpose - Idiopathic clubfoot can be bilateral or unilateral; however, most studies of gait have assessed clubfoot cases as one uniform group. The contralateral foot in children with unilateral clubfoot has shown deviations in pedobarographic measurements, but it is seldom included in studies of gait. We evaluated gait in children with idiopathic clubfoot, concentrating on foot i...

Clubfoot is a common musculoskeletal birth defect for which few causative genes have been identified. To identify the genes responsible for isolated clubfoot, we screened for genomic copy-number variants with the Affymetrix Genome-wide Human SNP Array 6.0. A recurrent chromosome 17q23.1q23.2 microduplication was identified in 3 of 66 probands with familial isolated clubfoot. The chromosome 17q2...

Case presentation: Male patient, 1 year-old, born and resident in Maranhão. Mother reported reduced fetal movement, after birth some dysmorphisms were identified such as deformity the lower limbs, characterized by arthrogryposis, bilateral congenital clubfoot, dislocation of hip fracture right femur perceived on fifth day life. During development, generalized hypotonia significant motor delay n...

in this descriptive study, researchers determined rate and type of newborn infants’ anomalies in rafsanjen niknafas hospital in 1991-1995.  this study is resulted from medical records of mothers referring to above mentioned center during five years. total number of child birth was 21187. 17321 was normal vaginal delivery and 3866 was cesarean section. because of unknown reasons, 57 infants were...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic clubfoot is approximately twice as common in males than in females. The reason for this discrepancy is unclear but may represent an inherent difference in the susceptibility to the deformity. If this difference is due to genetic factors it is predicted that in order to inherit clubfoot, females need to have a greater number of susceptibility genes than males. Females would...

PURPOSE Calcaneocuboid arthrodesis was used during revision clubfoot surgery in order to maintain midfoot correction. The purposes of this study were to determine: (1) functional level at 17-year follow-up compared to 5-year follow-up; (2) patients' current functional level, satisfaction, and pain; and (3) current arthropometric measurements. METHODS Twenty patients (27 clubfeet) with clubfoo...