Table 1.
Clinical details of the patients treated with humeral monolateral fixator
| Case | Sex | Age, years |
Side a | Etiology | Intial length a, cm |
Lengthening achieved a, cm |
Months with external fixator |
Follow-up, years |
Complications a |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M | 18 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 17 | B: 8 | 10 | 7 | R: Varus angulation |
| 2 | M | 13 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 15 | B: 11 | 7 | 2.5 | R: Transient radial nerve palsy |
| 3 | F | 14 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 17 | B: 9.5 | 7 | 4.5 | B: Elbow contracture |
| 4 | F | 12 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 15 | B: 10.5 | 7 | 2 | – |
| 5 | F | 11 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 16.5 | B: 10 | 6 | 3 | R: Refracture |
| 6 | M | 14 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 15 | B: 8 | 12 | 5.5 | B: Elbow contracture |
| 7 | F | 18 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 22 | B: 9 | 14 | 3.5 | L: Refracture |
| 8 | F | 14 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 18 | B: 10 | 8 | 1 | – |
| 9 | F | 12 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 20 | B: 9.5 | 8 | 1 | – |
| 10 | F | 11 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 15 | B: 10 | 12 | 2 | R: Pin tract infection |
| 11 | M | 10 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 12 | B: 8.5 | 9 | 1.5 | R: Pin tract infection |
| 12 | F | 12 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 17 | B: 10 | 7 | 3 | L: Pin tract infection |
| 13 | F | 14 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 14.5 | B: 6.5 | 19 | 4 | – |
| 14 | M | 19 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 19.5 | B: 10 | 8 | 2.5 | B: Pin tract infection |
| 15 | F | 13 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 16 | B: 10 | 8 | 2 | – |
| 16 | F | 11 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 15 | B: 10.5 | 9 | 1.2 | R: Varus angulation |
| 17 | M | 22 | B | Achondroplasia | B: 20 | B: 10 | 7 | 2 | – |
| 18 | F | 14 | L | Osteomyelitis | R: 31, L: 27 | L: 5 | 6 | 8 | – |
| 19 | F | 12 | L | Osteomyelitis | R: 29, L: 23 | L: 8 | 9 | 2 | R: Refracture |
| 20 | F | 10 | L | Osteomyelitis | R: 27, L: 20 | L: 9 | 7 | 5 | – |
| 21 | M | 15 | R | Physeal injury | R: 22, L: 29 | L: 7 | 6 | 6 | – |
| 22 | F | 13 | R | Physeal injury | R: 20, L: 24 | R: 4 | 6 | 4 | R: Elbow contracture |
| 23 | M | 18 | R | Physeal injury | R: 23, L: 29 | R: 6 | 9 | 4 | R: Pin tract infection |
a Side: B – bilateral; L – left; B – bilateral