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Doctors, what is the difference between tibial tuberosity transfer and osteotomy?
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Depends: osteotomy is the term for cutting the bone if you are to have a transfer you would require the bone to be cutand therefore you would be undergoing an osteotomy
Answered 6/27/2014
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Nothing.: A tibial tubercle transfer is referred to as a tibial tubercle osteotomy.
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