Proximal femoral growth plates were classified as open or closed. Cam morphology development was defined as every increase in visual score and/or increase in alpha angle from <60° to ≥60°, between two ...

Physeal stapling has proven success, but hardware prominence or failure has been problematic. Recently, the tension band plate construct ("8-plate") has been promoted for hemiepiphysiodesis ...

Brief [3] originally described a physeal sparing ... in both the distal femur and proximal tibia. None were found to have angular deformity or injury to the growth plate. Shelbourne and colleagues ...