PMC3017701_01
Anteroposterior and lateral radiographs of the left forearm of a 6-year-old boy with left elbow deformity and shortening show a pseudoarthrosis of the ulna and atrophic change of the distal ulna with a chronic radial head dislocation.
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F1
Eighteen and half years postoperatively, severe cubitus valgus deformity was noted (A), and a corrective dome osteotomy was performed at the proximal forearm bone (B).
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F2
Eighteen and a half years after the one-bone forearm procedure, the patient presented with a cubitus valgus deformity (carrying angle, 45 ) (Fig. 2).
Clinical photographs of the patient at more than 20-year follow-up shows 7  of extension and 141  of flexion of the left elbow and 40  of pronation and 40  of supination.
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F3
The elbow range of movement was -7  to 141 ; pronation/supination was 40 /40  (Fig. 3).