Transfer of half the calcaneal tendon to the dorsum of the foot for paralytic equinus deformity

✍ Scribed by F. Fernández-Palazzi; J. R. Medina; N. Marcano

• Book ID: 104692153
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 496 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0341-2695
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00265742

✦ Synopsis

Transfer of half of the calcaneal tendon to the dorsum of the foot will maintain correction of a paralytic equinus deformity. We have used this procedure on 97 feet since 1967. Seventy-six were reviewed and the overall results were excellent or good in 69%. The outcome was better in children with cerebral palsy (85% excellent or good) than in those with poliomyelitis (only 13% excellent or good).