Modern principles of treatment of patients with limb shortenings

Abstract

A short survey of modern literature on the problem of limb surgical elongation is given in the work: its actuality, trends and tasks of studies, optimal conditions of reparative osteogenesis. The work rounds off achievements on reduction of periods of patient treatment, as well as scientific-and-clinical activity of the laboratory for correction of deformities and limb elongation of RSC "RTO" (head of the laboratory – Doctor of Med. Sciences Popkov A.V.), presents trends and prospects of further applied studies.