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Abstract
A condition in which one of a pair of legs fails to grow as long as the other, which could result from injury or surgery.
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5 entry terms
- Inequalities, Leg Length
- Inequality, Leg Length
- Leg Length Inequalities
- Length Inequalities, Leg
- Length Inequality, Leg
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
correction of inequality: coord IM with BONE LENGTHENING (IM) or specifically ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE (IM) if pertinent
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History Note
72; LEG LENGTHENING was heading 1964-71 (Prov 1964-66)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Leg Length Inequality. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007870. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007870
- Leg Length Inequality. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_leg_length
- Leg Length Inequality. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3027684