Background: In patients with a congenital or developmental limb-length discrepancy, the short limb grows at a rate proportional to that of the normal, long limb. This is the basis of predicting limb-length discrepancy with existing methods, which are complicated and require multiple data points. The purpose of our study was to derive a simple arithmetic formula that can easily and accurately pr...

Approximately 1 in 1000 children are born with congenital lower limb deficiencies related to underlying vascular insufficiency.1 Their parents face a difficult choice: early amputation and prosthesis-fitting or series of painful, invasive lengthening procedures, which, despite some advances, still carry risk poor functional outcome for significant minority patients.1–3 In this Family Partnershi...

A unique combination of external and internal fixation techniques, for a fibular lengthening procedure using the Ilizarov method is described. The technique is minimally invasive, allows precise deformity correction, enables early weight bearing, and minimizes the time that the patient wears the external fixator. Introduction Bone lengthening procedures have, over time, been approached in a var...