Table 2.
Surgical Procedures and Outcomes.
| Study | Surgical procedures | Primary indication | Pain reduced | ROM improved | Complications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burrows9 | RL/US | Deformity | NS | 50% | NS |
| Ranawat et al42 | RL/US, USa | Pain | 100% | 100% | 1 revision surgery |
| Nielsen40 | RL/US, US | Pain | 69% | 8% | 3 revision surgeries |
| Vickers and Nielsen50 | LP | Pain | 100% | 100% | 1 iatrogenic injury |
| Watson et al51 | RL, RL/US | Pain | 100% | NS | 8 revision surgeries |
| Angelini et al4 | SK | Pain | 87% | 87% | 1 CRPS |
| Murphy et al39 | RL | NS | 100% | 100% | 2 revision surgeries 1 hardware removal |
| de Billy et al15 | RLb | Pain | 100% | 100% | 1 transient neurological injury |
| Dos Reis et al18 | RL/US | Deformity | 80% | 100% | 1 wound infection 1 CRPS requiring revision surgery |
| Salon et al45 | RL/US | Pain | 100% | 100% | 1 revision surgery |
| Schmidt-Rohlfing et al46 | RL, US | Pain | 100% | 20% | None |
| Ahmed Mir et al2 | RLb | Pain | 100% | 100% | None |
| Bruno et al8 | US | Pain | 100% | 100% | 1 revision surgery |
| Houshian et al30 | RLb | Pain | 100% | 100% | 2 infection 2 revision surgery |
| Dagregorio and Saint-Cast13 | RL | Pain | 100% | 100% | None |
| Aharoni et al1 | US | NS | 100% | NS | NS |
| de Paula et al16 | RL | NS | 100% | 100% | None |
| Glard et al24 | US | NS | 100% | 100% | NS |
| Potenza et al41 | RL/US | NS | 100% | 100% | None |
| Laffosse et al33 | RL/US | Pain | 82% | 100% | 2 neurological deficits (transient) |
| Kampa et al31 | RL/USa | Pain | 100% | 100% | 1 hardware removal |
| El-Gafary and El-adly20 | RLb | Deformity | 100% | 100% | NS |
| Mallard et al37 | RL | NS | 100% | 100% | 7 hardware removal 1 persistent neurological deficit |
| Steinman et al48 | RL | NS | 83% | 83% | 6 revision surgeries |
| Saffar and Badina44 | RL, RL/US | NS | 75% | 100% | 16 hardware removal 1 revision surgery 1 CRPS |
Note. ROM = range of motion; RL = radial lengthening; US = ulnar shortening; NS = not specified; LP = Langenskiöld procedure; SK = Sauvé-Kapandji procedure; CRPS = complex regional pain syndrome.
a
Ulnar shortening through Darrach procedure.
b
Radial lengthening through Ilizarov technique.