Table 7.
Literature review of preoperative factors influencing incidence of lateral release
| Study | Type of release | Lateral release rate (number of lateral releases/total patients) | Number of lateral releases (total number of patients) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deformity | Sex | |||||||
| Varus | Valgus | p value | Male | Female | p value | |||
| Laskin [21] | Outside-in | 6% (12/178) |
1 (134) (1%) |
11 (24) 46% |
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| Ritter et al. [29] | Not described | 35% (428/1205) |
141 (469) (30.1%) |
287 (736) (40%) |
* | |||
| Kusuma et al. [19] | Not described | 28% (314/1108) |
249 (930) (26.7%) |
65 (178) (36.5%) |
0.02 | |||
| Current study | Outside-in | 10.6% (205/1884) |
194 (1819) (10.7%) |
11 (65) (16.9%) |
0.1113 | 12 (388) (3.1%) |
193 (1496) (12.9%) |
< 0.001 |
* No statistical evaluation reported.