Abstract   Background: Pseudoarthrosis of the tibia poses one of the most challenging treatment   problems in all of orthopedics. The goal of the study was to assess the clinical   outcome of intramedullary rod fixation in its treatment.   Methods: The results of the management for nine patients with pseudoarthrosis of   the tibia with IM rod fixation were reviewed retrospectively between 198...

PURPOSE Although bilateral lower-limb lengthening has been performed on patients with achondroplasia, the outcomes for the tibia and femur in terms of radiographic parameters, clinical results, and complications have not been compared with each other. We proposed 1) to compare the radiological outcomes of femoral and tibial lengthening and 2) to investigate the differences of complications rela...

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453674.2014.908346 Sir–We read with interest the article by Kold and Christensen (2014). However, we think that there are some points that could be discu...

We describe ten patients with Turner's syndrome (karyotype 45, XO) who had leg lengthening for short stature. A high incidence of postoperative complications was encountered and many patients required intramedullary fixation as a salvage procedure. We discuss the reasons for this and highlight the differences between our findings and those of a similar series recently reported. In view of the c...