RT Journal
A1 Peterson, Hamlet A.
T1 Physeal Bar ExcisionA Case Report with a Forty-two-Year Follow-up
JF The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
JO The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
YR 2011
FD July 20
VO 93
IS 14
SP e79 1
OP 4
DO 10.2106/JBJS.J.01714
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.J.01714
AB 
Physeal bar excision is a well-accepted procedure for reestablishing growth of a physis that has a premature partial arrest in a growing child. Presented here is a long-term follow-up of what is believed to be the first case of a physeal bar excision of an epiphysis documenting a gain in longitudinal length, and the first with long-term follow-up on a patient who had reached maturity. The long-term result was unchanged and durable in adulthood. The patient gave permission for this information to be submitted for publication.