Traumatic
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| This 26 year
old school teacher from Nepal suffered a crush injury to the ankle with bone & soft
tissue loss . A cross-leg flap had been done to heal the soft tissue wound and there was a
shortening of 10 cms and a 3 cm gap with severe equinus deformity in the ankle.
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| The Ilizarov was mounted
on the femur and the tibial and foot. Bone transport is in progress and ankle deformity is
slowly getting corrected. Femur is fixed to obtain better stability.
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| This picture shows bone
transport in progress. In this famous method, the fragment of bone is slid down like an
elevator and is filling up the gap in the lower level. Behind this bone fragment, new bone
forms and helps to increase the length of the leg.
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| The limb
lengths are now equal and the deformity completely corrected within 9 months of treatment.
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