The Guided Growth Plate Systems consist of different sizes of eight-Plate™ and quad-Plate designed to accept cannulated or solid screws available in a variety of sizes. Plates and screws are available in sterile or non-sterile configuration.

Eight Plates are used for control and correction of angular deformities like genu valgum or varus by a performing epiphysiodesis. Eight Plates serves as a tension band and restores the physiological axis.

Apply contoured eight-Plate over pin. 3. Using the Drill Guide, first insert the Epiphyseal Guide Wire, followed by the Metaphyseal Guide Wire. It is not necessary for these two wires to be parallel; it is more important to avoid the physis. Remove the center Guide Wire and check position with fluoroscope.

One level plate lengths begin at 9mm measured hole-to-hole. The result is an anterior cervical plate construct of minimal length and thickness, while maintaining a maximum distance from the adjacent disc levels. Combined with fully customizable instrument options to meet every surgeon’s needs, Nexxt Spine’s Struxxure® Anterior Cervical Plate

(hemiepiphysiodesis) using a flexible construct of a nonlocking plate of 8 shaped and two screws came forward in the year 2006-2007. This plate acts as a tension band without any risk of direct damage to growth plate. Once the deformity is corrected, plate is …

It has become routine strategy to remove only the metaphyseal screw from the 8-plate construct after desired correction is achieved, in order to ease its reinsertion in case of deformity recurrence. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of this technique.

Historical methods of surgical treatment (e.g., epiphysiodesis and stapling) have yielded to the increasingly popular method of reversible guided growth using the eight-Plate. We studied 58 patients with knee angular deformities managed with eight-Plate guided growth.

Our results reflect the efficacy of flexible titanium eight-plate which corrects angular deformity by acting as a tension band on one side of the growth plate and offers the advantage of reversible Hemi epiphyseal growth modulation.

Angular deformities can be corrected gradually with growth by performing permanent hemiepiphysiodesis with physeal ablation or temporary hemiepiphysiodesis using Blount staple (s) (Blount, 1945) or a tension band plate (Stevens, 2007) across one side of the physis.

We carried out a systematic review on growth modulation using 8-plate construct to evaluate demographics, clinical outcome, rate of correction, complication and rebound deformity in the literature. Our aim was to understand and develop the evidence base for the use of this construct.