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tibial bowing

anterior bowing
- OI
- hypophosphatasia
- thanatophoric dwarfism
- neurofibromatosis
- --> if fractured, doesn't heal normally
posterior bowing
- often bilateral
- d/t fetal malposition
- fracture will heal normally

Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD - 2 February 1995
Last updated: 1 October 2013