Table 2.
Functional Outcome of Studies in Ilizarov and LRS group.
| ILIZAROV DATA | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author (year) | ASAMI (bone results) – E/G/F/P | E + G | ASAMI (functional results) – E/G/F/P | E + G | External fixator time (month) | External fixator index (day/cm) | Complications per patient (number of complications/sample size) |
| V Barbarossa (2001) | 13/9/2/5 with 1 amputation | 22/30 | 5/10/8/6 (1 failure) | 15/30 | NS | NS | 87/30 = 2.9 |
| David W. Sanders (2002) | NS | NS | 9/4/1/5 | 13/19 | NS | NS | 18/19 = 0.94 |
| S Patil (2006) | 17/14/4/6 | 31/41 | 14/14/2/4 | 28/41 | 14.1 ± NS | NS | 56/41 = 1.36 |
| A Krishnan (2006) | 13/4/1/1 | 17/20 | 3/9/3/5 | 12/20 | 7.8±4.13 | 38.3±1.6 (36–42) | 71/20 = 3.55 |
| MP Magadum (2006) | 19/5/0/1 | 24/27 | 15/8/1/1 | 23/27 | 6.3 ± NS (4−12) | NS | 25/27 = 0.92 |
| Dror Paley (2006) | 10/9/1/1 | 19/21 | 15/3/2/1 | 18/21 | 7.8 ± NS | 75 ± NS | 61/21 = 2.9 |
| Ranjit Baruah (2007) | 24/24/0/2 | 48/50 | 23/22/2/2 | 45/50 | 6.08 ± NS | 51.9 ± NS | 33/50 = 0.66 |
| Khaled M Emara (2008) | IMN – 17/0/0/0 Without IMN – 15/1/0/0 | 33/33 | IMN – 13/2/2/0 Without IMN – 12/1/3/0 | 28/33 | With IMN-3.1 ± NS | With IMN- 16.5 ± NS | 10/33 = 0.3 |
| Without IMN – 8.5 ± NS | Without IMN -45 ± NS | ||||||
| S. Robert Rozbruch (2008) | 24/12/0/2 | 36/38 | 20/14/2/2 | 34/38 | 9.6 ± NS (3.9–23.8) | NS | 24/38 = 0.63 |
| Michael D. McKee (2008) | NS | NS | 9/1/1/0 | 10/11 | 6.5 ± NS (1.75–10.5) | NS | 25/11 = 2.27 |
| M. Trigui (2008) | 3/4/2/0 | 7/9 | 1/8/0/0 | 9/9 | 9 ± NS | 57 ± NS | 18/9 = 2 |
| Francesco Sala (2011) | 10/2/0/0 | 12/12 | 6/5/1/0 | 11/12 | 15.16 ± NS | NS | 24/12 = 2 |
| M Sayed (2013) | 10/6/1/3 | 16/20 | 4/13/3/0 | 17/20 | 8.03±2.774 (5–15) | NS | 63/20 = 3.15 |
| P Yin (2014) | 44/15/5/2 | 59/66 | 24/26/10/0 | 50/66 | NS | 41.4 ± NS (34.5–47.4) | NS |
| Chang Seon Oh (2015) | 6/1/0/0 | 7/7 | 6/1/0/0 | 7/7 | 6.18 ± NS | 26.0 ± NS (19.8–32.5) | 3/7 = 0.42 |
| Peng Yin (2015) | 46/17/7/2 | 63/72 | 25/27/13/0 | 52/72 | 2.3 ± NS | 44.4 ± NS (34.5–50.1) | 192/110: 1.74 |
| Ramji Lal Sahu (2016) | 50/7/2/1 | 57/60 | 45/10/3/2 | 55/60 | 12 ± NS (8–14) | 120 ± NS | 69/60 = 1.15 |
| Kemal Aktuglu (2016) | 12/8/2/2 | 20/24 | 14/9/1/0 | 23/24 | 11.69±2.97 (8.7–20.9) | 52 ± NS (34.8–62.8) | 28/24 = 1.66 |
| R Rohilla (2016) | I-21/12/0/2 | 33/35 | I-16/17/1/1 | 33/35 | 11.1 ± NS | 63.6 ± NS | I-60/35 = 1.71 |
| Martin McNally (2017) | 74/3/0/2 | 77/79 | 55/16/6/1 (1 amputation) | 71/79 | 7.5 ± NS | 45.6 ± NS | 18/79 = 0.23 |
| Gamal Ahmed Hosny (2018) | 109/26/3/6 | 135/144 | 91/38/12/3 | 129/144 | 9.12±2.27 (6–16) | NS | 35/144 = 0.24 |
| K Bhowmick (2018) | 8/0/0/0 | 8/8 | 5/3/0/0 | 8/8 | 11.5±8.03 (3–30) | NS | 8/8 = 1 |
| S Fahad (2019) | 22/19/7/3 | 41/51 | 24/21/4/2 | 45/51 | 10 ± NS | 60 ± NS (45–120) | 24/51 = 0.47 |
| G Testa (2020) | 10/12/4/0 | 22/26 | 16/9/1/0 | 25/26 | 9.8±2.3 (6–13) | NS | 6/26 = 0.23 |
| I Sigmund (2020) | ASR: 18/2/0/0 BT: 22/5/0/0 | 47/47 | ASR: 12/7/1/0 BT: 19/6/2/0 | 44/47 | ASR: 8.8 ± NS (5−16) | ASR: 60 ± NS (39–84) | 31/47 = 0.6531 |
| BT: 10.3 (7–17) | BT: 54 ± NS (27–81) | ||||||
| R K Baruah (2020) | 16/42/18/10 | 58/86 | 13/44/22/7 | 57/86 | 6.8 ± NS | 40.5 ± NS | 51/86 = 0.6 |
| Gamal Ahmed Hosny (2020) | 8/3/1/1 | 11/13 | 9/3/1/0 | 12/13 | 5.3 ± NS | NS | 18/13 = 1.4 |
| A Chalak (2021) | 27/2/1/0 | 29/30 | 28/2/0/0 | 30/30 | 11.43 ± NS | 51.3 ± NS (35–105) | 20/30 = 0.66 |
| Lukasz Szelereski (2021) | 88/9/0/5 | 97/102 | 67/30/0/5 | 97/102 | 8.3 ± NS | NS | 5/102 = 0.05 |
| LRS DATA | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author (year) | ASAMI (bone results) – E/G/F/P | E + G | ASAMI (functional results) – E/G/F/P | E + G | External fixator time (month) | External fixator index (day/cm) | Complications per patient (number of complications/sample size) |
| Seenappa (2013) | 22/3/0/3 | 25/30 | 11/14/0/0 (Failure-3) | 25/30 | 9.68 ± NS | 57.3 ± NS | 50/30 = 1.66 |
| Peng Yin (2015) | 22/11/5/0 | 33/38 | 12/15/8/0 | 27/38 | 64.45 ± NS (45–86) | 45 ± NS (38.4–51.3) | 192/110: 1.74 |
| Rohilla (2016) | 14/15/3/3 | 29/35 | 22/10/0/3 | 32/35 | 10.5 ± NS | 63.3 ± NS | II-70/35 = 2 |
| Jhang (2017) | 30/6/5/0 | 36/41 | 21/9/7/4 | 30/41 | 13.3 ± NS | 39 ± NS | 58/41 = 1.41 |
| Gupta (2018) | 14/0/0/0 | 14/14 | 8/6/0/0 | 14/14 | 4.5 ± NS | 21.2 ± NS | 7/14 = 0.5 |
| Chen (2019) | 15/8/0/0 | 23/23 | 18/5/0/0 | 23/23 | 3.26 ± NS | 22.4 ± NS | 5/23 = 0.22 |
| Kushwaha (2020) | 9/10/2/0 | 19/21 | 11/9/1/0 | 20/21 | 11.2 ± NS (6–18) | NS | 10/21 = 0.47 |
| Victor Lu (2021) | 4/2/0/2 | 6/8 | NS | NS | 2.29 ± NS | 24 ± NS (11.2–42.0) | 17/8 = 2.125 |
ASAMI, The Association For The Study And Application Of Methods Of Ilizarov; E/G/F/P/F, Excellent/Good/Fair/Poor/Failure; EFT, External fixation time; EFI, External fixation index.