Table 7.

Retrospective clinical series on corrective arthrodesis in Charcot feet (Last 2 series refer to primary surgical intervention. Display of the essential outcome parameters (NS not specified, AFO ankle-foot-orthosis)

Author (year)	Recurrency of ulcers (n)	Deep infection (n)	Hardware failure (n)	Reoperation (n)	Nonunion (n)	Amputation (n)	Accommodative shoeware	Function
Papa et al. (1993) [20]	3	2	4	5	10	1	All AFO	25/29 walking
Early and Hansen (1996) [10]	2	2	2	2	2	3	13/15	13/15 walking
Pinzur and Kelikian (1997) [25]	NS	6	?	9	2	1	NS	NS
Schon et al. (1997) [33]	NS	15	NS	19	2	4	13 AFO all but one regular or orthopaedic shoewear	NS
Sammarco and Conti (1998) [30]	0	3	2	5	5	0	All but 1	No limit of activity
Myerson et al. (2000) [17]	2	0	2	1	2	0	All AFO	All community walker
Stone and Daniels (2000) [36]	1	0	0	0	4	0	6 walking aids one wheelchair	Mean AOFAS score 52
Pakarinen et al. (2002) [19]	1	2	0	NS	1	2	NS	NS
Pinzur (2004) [21]	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	8	NS	NS
Saltzman et al. (2005) [29]	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	0	NS	NS
Pinzur and Sostak (2007) [26]	3	NS	NS	8	NS	3	44/51	NS
Sammarco et al. (2009) [31]	3	1	8	9	6	0	NS	All ambulatory
Simon et al. (2000) [35]	0	0	NS	0	0	0	14	Level of walking ability similar to preop state
Mittlmeier et al. (current study)	0	1	6	9	6	0	All but 2	AOFAS (midfoot) 84 AOFAS (hindfoot) 70