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Blount’s disease, also known as tibia vara, is a growth disorder that affects the growth plates of the shin bone (tibia). Blount’s disease causes a child’s lower leg to turn inward and bend to resemble the curve in the letter C.
Infantile Blount's disease is progressive pathologic genu varum centered at the tibia in children 2 to 5 years of age. Diagnosis is suspected clinically with presence of a genu varum/flexion/internal rotation deformity and confirmed radiographically with an increased metaphyseal-diaphyseal angle.
Blount’s disease is a disorder of the growth plates in the bones around the knee. It causes a child to have a bowlegged appearance.
Blount disease is a growth disorder of the shin bone which causes the lower leg to angle inward, resembling a bowleg. It can present in boys under 4-years in both legs, or in adolescents usually on one side.
This condition was first described by Ehrlacher and then popularized by Walter Blount (Blount, 1937). It is usually seen in overweight adolescent children who have involvement of the proximal medial tibial growth plate.