Comparison of Proximal and Distal Rotational Femoral Osteotomy in Children With Cerebral Palsy
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
- Vol. 23 (2), 150-154
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01241398-200303000-00003
Abstract
This study compares the complication rates and results of 27 proximal (intertrochanteric) and 51 distal femoral rotational osteotomies in 48 patients with static encephalopathy. There was no significant difference between the 14% rate of orthopaedic complications in the intertrochanteric osteotomy (ITO) group and the 10% rate in the distal osteotomy (DO) group. Loss of fixation occurred in three of 51 limbs (6%) in the DO group and in none of 27 limbs in the ITO group. If the results of one surgeon are excluded, fixation loss occurred in one of the 49 remaining DO cases (2%). There was one delayed union in the study population (1/27 limbs [4%] in the ITO group). Of the 33 limbs studied with postoperative gait analysis, overcorrection was present in two limbs (6%): one of 10 limbs (10%) in the ITO group and one of 23 (4%) in the DO group. Static and dynamic measures of femoral rotation improved in both groups, and no statistically significant differences were present between the two groups. Though variable, the mean change in dynamic and static measurements postoperatively was approximately 40% less than the amount of derotation reported at surgery.Keywords
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