What's the difference between bandyleg and bowleg?
Bandyleg
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Bowleg
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(n.) A crooked leg.
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(1) We report on 2 male propositi, their mothers, and a maternal aunt with a new skeletal dysplasia associated with a unique pattern of digital malformation, variable mild short stature, and mild bowleg with proximal overgrowth of the fibula.
(2) A study of the underlying biochemical events would contribute to a better understanding of the control of longitudinal growth rate in epiphyseal growth plates and of the molecular pathology of exaggerated physiologic bowleg or knock-knee deformities.
(3) There were sixty-four knock-knees and eighteen bowlegs.
(4) The measurement of the proximal tibial metaphyseal diaphyseal angle and the tibial metaphyseal metaphyseal angle were more significant than that of the femorotibial angle for early differentiation of the infantile type of Blount's disease from physiological bowleg.
(5) Bowlegs and knock-knees are common concerns in the early years of life.
(6) The tibial metaphyseal-diaphyseal (MD) and tibial-femoral (TF) angles were measured on the radiographs of 33 knees in young children (aged 12-36 months) with bowleg deformity.
(7) Children with clinical tibiofemoral angles, intercondylar or intermalleolar distances tended to be bowlegged at birth, maximally knock-kneed at age 3 and to have normal lower limbs by age 8.
(8) Our assessment of the surgical correction of bowleg deformity in eight patients with sex-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets showed the best results in patients having staged, proximal tibial osteotomies at completion of growth.
(9) Tibia vara is characterized by inhibited growth of the medial portion of the proximal tibial growth plate, leading to progressive bowleg deformity.
(10) Roentgenographical examinations were carried out in 41 joints of 22 cases with physiological bowleg and 7 joints of 5 cases with the infantile type of Blount's disease.
(11) Serial radiographic measurements of the tibias of 14 children 12 months to 5 years of age who were being evaluated for bowleg deformities showed both proximal and distal tibial bowing.
(12) The children had a total of 231 siblings, of whom 10 had bowlegs, while 16 parents had been similarly affected during their own infancy.
(13) Symptomatic bowlegs and knock-knees are common in the aging person and aging athlete secondary to knee trauma.
(14) The degree and it's change of the distal tibial metaphyseal diaphyseal angle show no difference between physiological bowleg and the infantile type of Blount's disease.