A, Patient with cerebral palsy and fixed knee flexion contracture treated with anterior distal femoral epiphysiodesis using 8-plates. B, 20 months after surgery. (From Al-aubaidi Z, Lundgaard B, Pedersen NW: Anterior distal femoral hemi-epiphysiodesis in the treatment of fixed knee flexion contracture in neuromuscular patients, J Chil Orthop 6:313, 2012.) SEE TECHNIQUE 33.8.