AI Article Synopsis
- A simplified circular external fixator can effectively correct complex recurrent clubfoot deformities with minimal surgery and no major complications.
- If further corrective surgery, like arthrodesis, is needed, it involves very little bone removal since the main deformities have already been addressed.
- This approach emphasizes less invasive techniques while achieving significant improvements in foot and ankle alignment.
Article Abstract
A simplified standard setting of the circular external fixator allows correction of all the complex deformities of recurrent clubfoot with minimal surgical intervention and no major complications. In those cases where additional corrective arthrodesis is necessary, it is performed with minimal bone resection because the severe deformities of the foot and ankle have already been corrected.
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