%0 Journal Article
%T Correcci¨®n de las deformidades del tobillo mediante osteotom¨ªa metafisaria distal de tibia
%A Fleites Lafont
%A Luis
%A Garc¨ªa Freire
%A Boris Luis
%A Marrero River¨®n
%A Luis Oscar
%A Lara Valdivia
%A Jes¨²s
%A Mesa Ol¨¢n
%A Alberto
%A Garc¨ªa Freire
%A Ram¨®n
%J Revista Cubana de Ortopedia y Traumatolog£¿-a
%D 2004
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X a retrospective, descriptive and non-intervention study was made to evaluate 21 patients treated with metaphyseal osteotomy of distal tibia in "frank pa¨ªs" international scientific orthopedic complex from january,1997 to december, 2001. fourteen patients ere males (66,7 %) and 7 females (33,3 %) for a ratio of 2:1. the predominant deformity was ankle varus in 11 cases (52,3 %), followed by equinovarus foot and equino foot with 4 cases (19 %) and 3 cases (14,3 %) respectively, equinovalgus foot, foot varus and ankle valgus recurvatum with one case each. valgus correcting osteotomy was the most applied in 12 cases (57,1 %); also anterior osteotomy in 4 cases (19 %) and derotation osteotomy in one case (4,8 %); valgus-anterior osteotomy in 2 cases (9.5%), varus-anterior and varus-posterior in one case each (4,8 %). osteotomy of the fibula was performed in the 21 cases (100 %). the results of the treatment were the following: good in 18 cases (85,7 %); regular in 2 cases (9,5 %) and unsatisfactory in one case (4,8 %).
%K ankle deformities
%K metaphyseal osteotomy
%K treatment
%K tibia.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0864-215X2004000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en