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Triple arthrodesis in children: a ten-year review.
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Review of 66 triple arthrodeses in 47 children with a minimal follow-up of two years provides a study of contemporary experience with this surgical procedure, finding over 90% of patients had no or negligible pain; 79% considered their feet to be satisfactory in appearance; and most wore regular or mismatched shoes.Abstract:
:Review of 66 triple arthrodeses in 47 children (average age at operation, 12.1 years) with a minimal follow-up of two years provides a study of contemporary experience with this surgical procedure. Over 90% of patients had no or negligible pain; 79% considered their feet to be satisfactoryread more
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Calcaneal lengthening for valgus deformity of the hindfoot. Results in children who had severe, symptomatic flatfoot and skewfoot.
TL;DR: Thirty-one severe, symptomatic valgus deformities of the hindfoot in twenty children who had flatfoot (twenty-five feet) or skewfoot (six feet) were corrected with a modification of the calcaneal lengthening osteotomy described by Evans, avoiding the need for an arthrodesis and the many short and long-term complications associated with it.
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Clinical outcome after primary triple arthrodesis.
TL;DR: Triple arthrodesis for the treatment of various deformities and etiologies is effective in relieving pain and improving functional deficits and there was a significant association between satisfaction of the patient and postoperative alignment.
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Calcaneal lengthening for valgus deformity of the hindfoot
TL;DR: In this article, the calcaneal lengthening was combined with an opening-wedge osteotomy of the medial cuneiform to correct the deformities of both the hindfoot and the forefoot in the patients who had a skewfoot.
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Triple arthrodesis in the treatment of fixed cavovarus deformity in adolescent patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
David C. Mann,John D. Hsu +1 more
TL;DR: Ten adolescent patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease were evaluated an average of 7 years, 7 months following triple arthrodesis for the treatment of cavovarus deformity and the residual deformity, revision, and pseudarthrosis rates are similar to those for adults.