Publisher's Synopsis
The management of limb equality - principally but not exclusively affecting the lower limb - is a major problem in paediatric orthopaedics. These problems can also affect adults, for example following up hip replacement surgery. This is the definitive reference book on the subject, edited by Malcolm B. Menelaus, Director of Orthopaedics at the Royal Children's Hospital. Features: * The definitive reference work in this area * The editor and his colleagues have had considerable experience of the problems of limb inequality * Chapter on the controversial Ilizarov technique for limb lengthening - highly topipical
