title: Recurrent clubfoot--approach and treatment with external fixation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Foot and Ankle, Department of Orthopaedics, Santa Casa School of Medicine and Hospitals, São Paulo - SP, CEP 01308-000, Brazil. ceckley@unisys.com.br
authors.forename: Ricardo Cardenuto
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: Marco Túlio
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Costa
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000843:Ankle Joint / Q000601:surgery; D001174:Arthrodesis / Q000379:methods; D002370:Casts, Surgical; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003025:Clubfoot / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D016267:External Fixators; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008349:Manipulation, Orthopedic / Q000379:methods; D019857:Osteogenesis, Distraction / Q000379:methods; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D011379:Prognosis; D011859:Radiography; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular / Q000502:physiology; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012008:Recurrence; D018570:Risk Assessment