Edited by
George T. Aitken, M.D.

Sketch of PFFD Child
PROXIMAL FEMORAL

FOCAL DEFICIENCY

A Congenital Anomaly


A SYMPOSIUM
Held in Washington. D.C
June 13, 1968

Subcommittee on Child Prosthetics Problems
Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development      
Division of Engineering
of the
National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Washington, D.C. 1969


Contents


PROXIMAL FEMORAL FOCAL DEFICIENCY-DEFINITION, CLASSIFICATION, AND MANAGEMENT       1
    George T. Aitken

SOME CONCEPTS OF PROXIMAL FEMORAL FOCAL DEFICIENCY                                                  23
    Richard E. King

THE MORPHOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, AND TREATMENT OF                                                                   50
 PROXIMAL FEMORAL FOCAL DEFICIENCIES

   Harlan C. Amstutz

THE SURGICAL AND PROSTHETIC MANAGEMENT OF PROXIMAL FEMORAL FOCAL DEFICIENCY  77
   John E. Hall and Dietrich Bochmann

PROXIMAL FEMORAL FOCAL DEFICIENCY-A REVIEW OF TREATMENT EXPERIENCES                 100
   G. Wilbur Westin and Finn 0. Gunderson

CONTRIBUTORS                                                                                                                    111