[Postero-medial release in surgical treatment of congenital clubfeet: a comment to Turco's method based on personal experience].

Complete correction of congenital clubfeet by conservative treatment is often impossible. Surgical treatment plays a major role in treatment of this deformity. At the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics in Lublin between 1970 and 1999 1041 children (1253 feet) were treated surgically with Turco's method, in the authors' own modification. The paper presents the technically optimal procedure, the range of tendon elongation. The way the wound is closed is particularly stressed, as well as the need to achieve muscle balance, along with a description of proper post-op care. The material was analysed as a whole, although particular attention was given to three periods: 1970-1975, 1980-1985, 1990-1995. The results were assessed according to the Turco classification, the Magone classification in accordance with the injunctions of the Scientific Committee Meeting of the Pediatric Section of the Polish Orthopedic Society held in Poznan. Good and very good results were achieved in 65-67% of the cases, while satisfactory and bad results were found in 23-30% of the cases.