Outcome of Pauwels’ Y-Shaped Intertrochanteric Osteotomy for Coxa Vara Among Children at French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (Fmic), Kabul, Afghanistan

Shekaib Rahman Behroz, Mirza M

Abstract

Coxa vara is an abnormality characterized by a defect in the femoral neck with an abnormal decrease in the femoral neck-shaft angle, shortening of the femoral neck, relative overgrowth of the greater trochanter. Affected patients almost invariably present after walking age, and sometimes as late as adolescence. Developmental coxa vara is rare; its incidence was estimated to be 1 in 25,000 live births. There is no racial predilection and boys and girls are equally affected.