Ponseti Treatment of Rigid Residual Deformity in Congenital Clubfoot After Walking Age.

Background: There is no established treatment for rigid residual deformity of congenital clubfoot (CCF) after walking age. Soft-tissue procedures, osseous procedures, and external fixation have been performed with unpredictable results. We applied the Ponseti method to patients with this condition in order to improve the outcomes of treatment.

Complications of osteotomies about the knee.

High tibial osteotomy and distal femoral osteotomy are 2 popular techniques for the treatment of monocompartmental osteoarthritis of the knee joint in young patients. Injury to the popliteal neurovascular bundle is still considered to be the most severe complication during an osteotomy procedure even if the rate of occurrence is very low. Loss of correction and hardware failures are more frequent, but not as devastating.