Open AccessSonoelastographic Findings in Clubfeet
Author(s) -
Andrei Corbu,
Dan Cosma,
Dan Vasilescu,
Dan Vasilescu,
Ștefan Cristea
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s320115
Subject(s) - medicine , clubfoot , achilles tendon , tendon , peroneus longus , ponseti method , soft tissue , surgery , pathological , anatomy , deformity
One of the main features of congenital idiopathic clubfoot is the increased stiffness of soft tissues. With the growing popularity and availability of sonoelastography as a method to assess the stiffness of different tissues, we considered applying it to congenital clubfeet in order to to determine whether sonoelastography can be a useful imaging method for the evaluation of clubfeet, to assess whether there are any differences in stiffness of specific tendons between clubfeet and normal contralateral feet and to observe which treatment methods have an impact on the aspect of these structures on the elastograms.