Table 3.
Device-related complication.
| Complication | ISKD N = 35 |
PRECICE1 N = 34 |
PRECICE2 N = 46 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ia | 18 (51%) | 1 (2.2%) | |
| Runaway nail: 6 Difficult to distract nail: 12 |
Running back | ||
| Ib | 4 (12%) | 2 (5.9%) | 1 (2.2%) |
| Nondistracting nail: 3 Failure of lengthening mechanism: 1 |
Dense regenerated callus | Nonfunctioning nail | |
| Ic | |||
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| Total type I | 22 (63%) | 2 (5.9%) | 2 (5.9%) |
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| IIa | 3 (8.6%) | 3 (8.8%) | 19 (41%) |
| Nail bending without breakage: 2 | Nail bending without breakage | Nail bending without breakage: 7 | |
| Breakage of rotation coupling without instability: 1 | Breakage of rotation coupling without instability: 12 | ||
| IIb | 1 (2.9%) | 2 (4.3%) | |
| Nail breakage | Rotational stability | ||
| IIc | |||
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| Total type II | 3 (8.6%) | 4 (11.8%) | 21 (46%) |
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| III | |||
Note. Actually, Type III (other device-related complications) complication was not observed.