Sonographic Evaluation of Clubfoot Satish Kumar bhargava, Meenakshi Prakash, Anupama Tandon, Shobha S. Arora, Shuchi Bhatt, Sumeet Bhargava

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Congenital clubfoot is a common foot deformity reported with a prevalence of 4-7/ 1000 in various populations world over. It has four component deformities in seven possible combinations. Although, the assessment is done clinically by palpation but this clinical grading of the deformity is fraught with interobserver variability and inaccuracy due to thickened soft tissues. As the treatment most widely used these days is conservative comprising of serial manipulation and casting, there is a need of a reliable imaging modality for interval follow –up. Radiography has traditionally been used for the same but fell out of favour due to risks posed by radiation in children.