Table 2.

Clinical efficacy of the included patients

			AOFAS score			VAS pain score
No.	Sex/age	Adverse events	Before surgery	1 year after surgery	2 years after surgery	Before surgery	1 year after surgery	2 years After surgery
1	M/38	Aseptic wound leakage	72	87	89	6	2	0
2	M/60	Nil	65	87	90	5	3	0
3	M/29	Nil	39	84	90	7	3	2
4	F/41	Nil	43	80	80	7	3	1
5	M/50	Aseptic wound leakage	65	87	89	6	3	2
6	M/64	Aseptic wound leakage	68	90		6	3
7	F/51	Infection relapse	58	86		6	3
8	M/52	Aseptic wound leakage	65	82	84	6	4	1
9	M/10	Aseptic wound leakage	68	90	90	6	2	1
10	M/67	Aseptic wound leakage	62	86		6	2
11	M/63	Unrelated death	72	86		5	2
12	M/45	Nil	72	89	90	6	3	1
13	F/67	Nil	82	86	87	6	4	2
14	M/53	Nil	61	84	87	6	2	1
15	M/54	Aseptic wound leakage	61	87	87	6	2	0
16	F/51	Nil	49	90	90	7	2	0
17	M/56	Nil	68	87	87	6	4	1
18	M/30	Aseptic wound leakage	65	86		6	3
19	M/20	Nil	79	90	90	4	3	0
20	M/10	Nil	51	90	90	6	2	0
21	M/33	Nil	46	84		7	3
22	M/12	Nil	73	90	90	5	2	0
23	M/25	Infection relapse	72	84	84	7	3	2
24	F/60	Infection relapse	65	85	90	5	4	2
25	M/36	Nil	81	90		4	2
26	F/59	Nil	72	84		6	2
27	F/65	Infection relapse	45	75		6	4
28	M/3	Nil	71	90		6	2
29	M/22	Aseptic wound leakage	52	78	78	6	4	2
30	M/29	Nil	56	84		6	2
31	M/43	Infection relapse	68	86		6	3
32	M/18	Aseptic wound leakage	75	90		4	2
33	M/48	Nil	58	84		5	3
34	M/46	Aseptic wound leakage	58	89		6	2

AOFAS: American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society; VAS: visual analog scale.