Humerus Varus: A Complication of Neonatal, Infantile, and Childhood Injury and Infection

Corrective Osteotomy for Humerus Varus

“…3Y8 Proximal humerus 1 Female 13 Septic arthritis 7 100 50 70 2 Male 9 SED, posttraumatic 5 105 30 45 3 Male 16 Idiopathic NA 105 100 100 4 Male 12 Posttraumatic 6.25 93 55 80 5 Male 11 UBC NA 75 80 80 6 Male 17 Septic arthritis/ osteomyelitis varus has also been described as a complication of neonatal, infantile, and childhood infection. 9 In addition, humerus varus has been described in association with thalassemia, pseudohypoparathyroidism, and UBCs. 10Y12 Finally, proximal humerus varus may result from trauma to the proximal humerus physis in the skeletally immature patient.…”

Surgical treatment of varus malunion of the proximal humerus with valgus osteotomy

“…There are several factors that can interfere with the final result of treatment, and serious limitations of the functional capacity of the shoulder are frequent, no matter what therapeutic method is used. 8,14 One of the causes of functional limitation of the shoulder is varus angulation of the humeral head, a sequela that is not often mentioned in the literature, 2,4,5,9,10 which is related not only to the acceptance of unsuccessful closed reduction but also to imperfect open reduction and internal fixation. In such cases, varus deformity of the proximal humerus causes limited active abduction or limited forward flexion.…”

Health patterns of proto‐Byzantine populations (6th–7th centuries AD) in south Greece: the cases of Eleutherna (Crete) and Messene (Peloponnese)

“…Finally, although a variety of pathological conditions can produce humerus varus, i.e. osteomalacia and rickets, neonatal infection, tumour formation, thalassaemia, cretinism and generalized spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (Davies, 1956;Ogden et al, 1976;Ellefsen et al, 1994), in the case of the skeleton from Eleutherna there is no evidence of underlying disease or recent trauma and, consequently, the causation is possibly one of untreated intrauterine or early childhood trauma (Bourbou, 2001b).…”