Table 2.

Comparison of various series using different modalities for humeral lengthening for various etiologies

	Cattaneo et al.	Kashiwagi et al.	Shadi et al.	Hosny et al.	Current series
No. of patients
1) Lengthening only	29	20	5	16	17
2) Lengthening and deformity correction	–	–	–	–	6
Mean age	18	12.8	15.7	13	14
Number of humeral segments	43	20	10	16	40
Fixator used	Ilizarov	Ilizarov	Monolateral	Monolateral	Monolateral
Mean length gained, cm	9	7.8	8.5	–	8.8
Pin tract infection	6	5	2	16	6
Elbow stiffness	3	2	2	–	3 patients (5 elbows)
Radial nerve palsy	1	2	1	1	1
Refracture	7	2	None	2	3
Varus angulation	None	None	None	–	2
External fixation index (days/cm)	NR	NR	26	–	30.3
Mean healing index (days/cm)	NR	30	NR	28	28.2

NR – not reported