Does Strict Adherence to the Ponseti Method Improve Isolated Clubfoot Treatment Outcomes? A Two-institution Review
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Treatment of congenital clubfoot using Ponseti method☆
OBJECTIVE To quantitatively and qualitatively analyze the results from treatment of congenital clubfoot with a mean follow-up of 4.6 years. METHODS 26 patients who underwent treatment by means of the Ponseti method were analyzed (total of 39 feet). The mean age at the start of the treatment was 5.65 months. The mean length of the follow-up subsequent to tenotomy of the Achilles tendon was 4.6...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0009-921X
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-015-4559-4