Blount's disease

Blount's disease
Other names	Tibia vara
Blount's disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner (may be multifactorial as well).[1]
Specialty	Rheumatology

Blount's disease (or Blount disease) is a growth disorder of the

Signs and symptoms

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Cause

Blount disease is a growth disorder of the

Osteochondrodysplasias or genetic bone diseases can cause lower extremity deformities similar to Blount's disease. The clinical appearance and the characteristic radiographic are important to confirm the diagnosis.^[6][7]

Children who develop severe bowing before the age of 3 may be treated with knee ankle foot orthoses.^[9] However, bracing may fail, or bowing may not be detected until the child is older. Bracing should be started by 3 years of age. In some cases, surgery may be performed.^{[10][2][11][8]}

Blount disease is one of the 8 severe comorbidities of

Etymology

Blount disease is named after Walter Putnam Blount (1900–1992), an American pediatric orthopedic surgeon, who described it in 1937.^[13][14] It has also been known as Mau-Nilsonne syndrome, after C. Mau and H. Nilsonne, who published early case reports of the condition.^[15][16] it is today considered an acquired disease of the proximal tibial metaphysis rather than an epiphyseal dysplasia or osteochondrosis.^[11]

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