Table 5.
All other patients
| Diagnosis | Patient and age (years) | Site | (a) Initial treatment (b) Complication |
Final treatment | EFT (days) | (a) Shortening (b) Lengthening (cm) |
EFI (days/cm) | End result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCT | M 30 | L Tibia |
(a) Excision and tumour prosthesis (b) Septic prosthesis failure |
Implant removal Femur LON, Tibia Ilizarov |
180 | (a) 7.5 (b) 7.5 |
24 | Knee arthrodesis |
| F15 | L Radius |
(a) Wide resection and non vascularized fibula graft (b) Recurrence, osteomyelitis |
Lengthening and deformity correction (Unilateral External Fixator) | 117 | (a) 3.5 (b) 3.5 |
33 | Def. corrected | |
| DF | M 21 | Tibia and gluteal region | (a) Wide resection (b) Shortening and sciatic nerve palsy |
Pantalar arthrodesis (Ilizarov and IM nail) | 90 | (a) 5.5 (b) 3.5 |
26 | Res. shortening |
| CMF | M 22 | L Acet. |
(a) Wide resection (b) Shortening |
Femur lengthening (Ilizarov) | 270 | (a) 6 (b) 4.5 |
60 | Res. shortening |
| Chondroma | F 13 | R Distal Femur |
(a) Wide resection (b) Shortening and deformity |
Lengthening and deformity correction (Ilizarov) | 210 | (a) 9 (b) 8.5 |
25 | Def. corrected Res. shortening |
| UBC | F 14 | R Distal Fibula |
(a) Curettage and bone grafting (b) Deformity |
EBI frame | 27 | (a) 0.7 (b) 0.7 |
39 | Def. corrected |
EFT External Fixation Time (in days), EFI External Fixation Index (in days/cm), LON Lengthening over nail