Table 4.
Patients with congenital multiple exostosis
| Patient and age (years) | Site | (a) Initial treatment (b) Complication |
Final treatment | EFT (days) | (a) Shortening (b) Lengthening (cm) |
EFI (days/cm) | End result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M 14 | L Ulna |
(a) Excision (b) Ulnar club hand |
Corrective osteotomy of radius, ulnar lengthening (Unilateral fixator) | 270 | (a) 2 (b) 2.5 |
108 | Def. corrected |
| M 14 | R Ulna |
(a) Excision (b) Ulnar club hand |
Corrective osteotomy of radius, ulnar lengthening (Unilateral fixator) | 120 | (a) 2 (b) 2.5 |
48 | Def. corrected |
| F 10 | R&L Ulna |
(a) Excision (b) Bilateral ulnar club hand |
Ulnar lengthening over Steinman pins (Unilateral fixator) | 210 | (a) 3 (b) 3.5 |
60 | Def. corrected |
| M 10 | R Femur |
(a) Excision (b) Pathologic fracture, genu varum, 10 cm shortening |
Deformity correction and lengthening (Smart correction multiaxial fixator) | 300 | (a) 8 (b) 7 |
43 | Def. corrected Res. shortening |
| M 12 | L Femur |
(a) Excision (b) Deformity and knee contracture |
Deformity correction and lengthening (Smart correction multiaxial fixator) | 105 | (a) 3 (b) 2 |
52 | Def. corrected Res. shortening |
EFT External Fixation Time (in days), EFI External Fixation Index (in days/cm)