TY  - JOUR
T1  - Physeal Bar ExcisionA Case Report with a Forty-two-Year Follow-up
AU  - Peterson, Hamlet A.
Y1  - 2011/07/20
N1  - 10.2106/JBJS.J.01714
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - e79 1
EP  - 4
VL  - 93
IS  - 14
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 10.2106/JBJS.J.01714
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.J.01714
ER  -