Table 2.

Complications of the surgical procedures performed on the lesser toes in both cohorts

	IO			IO + tenotomy			Fisher’s exact test significance
	Events, n	Patients (%), n = 129	Procedures (%), n = 436	Events, n	Patients (%), n = 94	Procedures (%), n = 287	Patients	Procedures
Intraoperative phalangeal fracture	19	11.4	3.4	23	24.5	8.0	0.082	0.050
Postsurgical phalangeal fracture	3	1.8	0.5	12	12.8	4.2	0.002**	0.002**
Displacement	14	8.4	2.5	20	21.3	6.9	0.038*	0.003**
Delayed union	11	6.6	1.9	24	25.5	8.4	0.000‡	0.000‡
Hypertrophic callus	12	7.2	2.1	23	24.5	8.0	0.003**	0.002**
Non-union	0	–	–	1	1.1	0.3	0.421	0.397
Lack of correction	2	1.0	0.3	8	8.5	2.8	0.019*	0.017*

IO incomplete osteotomy

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ^‡p < 0.001