Clinico - epidemiological study of congenital talipes equinovarus

ABSTRACT

This study was carried out on 73 patients with congenital talipes equinovarus attending the Orthopaedic and Paediatric Departments, Mansoura University Hospital. Careful history, clinical and radiological examination and chromosomal study was carried out for every patient in order to detect the aetiology and the genetic pattern of club foot. We concluded that idiopathic club foot is primarily caused by multifactorial inheritance system modified by intrauterine environmental factors and is affected by the genetic pattern