Tratamiento de la braquimetatarsia mediante elongación ósea con minifijador externo RALCA？

this paper presented the results of bone lengthening with ralca external mini-fixator in a series of 6 cases with brachymetatarsia. the patients were treated at "frank país" international scientific orthopedic complex from 2003 to 2007. five patients suffered from bilateral brachymetatarsia, so 11 feet were treated; the anomaly was located in the fourth metatarsal. all the patients were females aged 13,2 years as average at the time of surgery. the average lengthening was 16 mm (12-21). the average time of consolidation was 2,2 months per lengthened bone cm. three feet presented with complications such as retardation in consolidation, surface infection in the wiring path and contracture on flexion at the corresponding toe′s metatarsal-phalangeal joint.