Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of typical patients from our hospital
| Age (years)/ Gender |
Causes (pathogen) |
Location (distance) |
Postoperative full lower limb length (cm) |
Postoperative interval to weight-bearing | Follow-up (months)/Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | R | Difference | ||||||
| 1 | 27/M | Osteomyelitis (MM, SH) |
R-Femur (12.9 cm) |
82.1 | 81.9 | 0.2 | 5 days | 35/new bone formation and scaffold stability |
| 2 | 32/M | Osteomyelitis (EC) |
L-Tibia (12.4 cm) |
77.6 | 78.4 | 0.8 | 10 days | 14/new bone formation and scaffold stability |
| 3 | 43/M | Osteomyelitis (SA) |
L-Tibia (6.3 cm) |
88.3 | 87.1 | 1.2 | 5 days | 35/new bone formation and scaffold stability |
| 4 | 61/M | Osteomyelitis (EC) |
R-Femur (14.0 cm) |
85.6 | 84.9 | 0.7 | 10 days | 23/new bone formation and scaffold stability |
| 5 | 65/M | Osteomyelitis (EC) |
R-Tibia (10.6 cm) |
81.9 | 81.7 | 0.2 | 13 days | 24/new bone formation and scaffold stability |
| 6 | 67/F | Osteomyelitis (SH) |
R-Femur (13.3 cm) |
79.2 | 78.9 | 0.3 | 14 days | 13/new bone formation and scaffold stability |
| 7 | 37/M | Osteomyelitis (PA) |
L-Tibia (10.8 cm) |
80.5 | 81.1 | 0.6 | 12 days | 16/new bone formation but tibial varus deformity |
| 8 | 43/F | Aseptic nonunion |
R-Femur (13.4 cm) |
76.2 | 77.1 | 0.9 | 10 days | 27/new bone formation and scaffold stability |
| Aseptic nonunion |
R-Tibia (8.5 cm) |
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| 9 | 69/F | Aseptic nonunion |
L-Femur (9.5 cm) |
71.7 | 71.1 | 0.6 | 25 days | 30/new bone formation and scaffold stability |
| 10 | 63/M | Aseptic nonunion |
R-Tibia (22.9 cm) |
80.5 | 79.6 | 0.9 | 14 days | 13/new bone formation and scaffold stability |
M male, F female, L left, R right, MM Morganella morganii, SH Staphylococcus haemolyticus, SA Staphylococcus aureus, EC Enterobacter cloacae, PA Pseudomonas aeruginosa