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The Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society (LLRS) celebrated its 28th year as an orthopaedic subspecialty, with a combined meeting with the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) at the 2019 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) meeting in Las Vegas. The LLRS 28th Annual Scientific Meeting was held on July 19 and 20, 2019, in Boston, Massachusetts, featuring papers and workshops from around the world. A diverse subspecialty society, we overlap with trauma, pediatric, foot and ankle, sports, arthroplasty, and oncologic orthopaedic surgeons in the diagnosis and treatment of deformities of length, alignment, contracture, nonunion, and bone healing. The purpose of this update was to summarize the important articles with regard to these subjects published since 2018.

Guided Growth The technique of temporary, asymmetric growth plate tethering continues to be a …