Considerations on deformity of the foot and suprasegmental pathology in infantile cerebral palsy.

The authors conducted a clinical and CT scan study of the lower limbs of patients with infantile cerebral palsy in a search for correlations between deformities of the foot and pathological conditions in other parts of the limb. This revealed that the keystone in the system is the knee, in which flexion deformity or recurvatum associated with varus or valgus and torsional deformity of the femur and tibia leads to repercussions in the foot which are reasonably predictable and constant. This contrasts with similar situations in non-neurological deformities, where repercussions in the foot are unpredictable.