Table 3.
Patient demographics
| Extension prostheses | Surgical amputation | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 9 | n = 25 in 23 patients | |||
| Gender | M 2 : F 7 | M 16 : 7 F | ||
| Median age at review (yrs) | 23.5 (IQR 50.25) | 8 (IQR 12) | ||
| Median follow-up (yrs) | 5.5 | 3.3 | ||
| Treatment | Amputation not offered | 4 | Early Symes | 19* |
| Amputation refused | 3 | Late Symes | 4 | |
| Additional surgery | 2 | Boyd | 1* | |
| Trans-tibial (late) | 1 | |||
| Rays in foot (n) | ||||
| Unknown | 1 | |||
| 1 | 2 | |||
| 2 | 1 | 7 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 4 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 1 | 3 |
*
One child at the time of Boyd amputation underwent a tibial osteotomy to correct the kyphus, the second child in the early Syme group underwent kyphus correction aged two years