TOTBİD Dergisi

TOTBİD Dergisi

2015, Cilt 14, Sayı, 3     (Sayfalar: 156-157)

Congenital clubfoot: a historical perspective of treatment

Nusret Köse 1, Bartu Sarısözen 2

1 Osmangazi Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Anabilim Dalı, Eskişehir
2 Uludağ Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Anabilim Dalı, Bursa

DOI: 10.14292/totbid.dergisi.2015.23
Görüntüleme: 866
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Congenital clubfoot is one of the most important congenital anomalies in orthopedics today and it has been a disease that attracts people`s attention constantly throughout history. Because of failure of conservative treatment with serial casting, orthopedic surgeons concentrated on the development of new surgical techniques. However, the ideal surgical method could not be found. Then, Ponseti gradually introduced his method. Dr. Ignacio V. Ponseti, whose gentle, nonsurgical method of correcting clubfoot has become the global standard for treatment, helping thousands of children to walk.

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