title: Congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia.
abstract: Congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia remains one of the most difficult conditions to treat in orthopedic surgery. Seven cases were treated in our hospital by different methods. Three out of seven patients were healed, two of these refractured. At follow-up, the success rate was 14% (one out of seven cases). It is our recommendation that early primary amputation with an appropriate prosthesis should be considered, and that the final evaluation should not be based on obtaining bone union, but on the level of function of the lower extremity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Joint Diseases Center for Children, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA.
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Lehman
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Atar
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Feldman
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Grant
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005592:Fracture Fixation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018889:Ilizarov Technique; D008297:Male; D011542:Pseudarthrosis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery*; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome