A case report of severe degenerative lumbar scoliosis associated with windswept lower limb deformity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The windswept lower limb deformity describes valgus deformity in one leg with varus deformity in the other. It is mostly seen in young children with metabolic bone diseases (such as rickets) and may lead to leg length discrepancy (LLD) and Degenerative scoliosis (DS) in older age. To the best of our knowledge, there was no report of the spinal surgery in patient with severe DS associated with windswept deformity. The objective of this study is to report the unique case of a 60-year-old woman with severe degenerative scoliosis (DS) associated with windswept deformity caused by rickets who underwent a posterior correction and fusion surgery in spine.

Case presentation

The patient was diagnosed as rickets windswept lower limb deformity for 50 years but never went thr

SUBMITTER: Yang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470442 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature