tibial bowing

• anterior bowing
  • OI
  • hypophosphatasia
  • thanatophoric dwarfism
  • neurofibromatosis
  • --> if fractured, doesn't heal normally

• posterior bowing
  • often bilateral
  • d/t fetal malposition
  • fracture will heal normally

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18