02 January 2022>: Articles
A 52-Year-Old Man with a Gustillo-Anderson IIIB Open Tibial Shaft Fracture with Extensive Soft-Tissue Defect Requiring Limb Salvage with Artificial Deformity-Creating Technique
Unusual setting of medical care
Konstantins Plotnikovs A , Olegs Ribakovs A* , Jevgenijs Movcans D , Vitalijs Pasters D , Leonid Nikolaevich Solomin ADOI: 10.12659/AJCR.934788
Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e934788
Figure 3. (A) X-rays (anteroposterior and lateral) after orthopedic hexapod mounting, to perform the deformity correction calculations. (B) Clinical photograph showing the end of artificial deformity correction using orthopedic hexapod. (C) X-ray (anteroposterior and lateral) presenting talocrural arthrodesis as fixation method using the Ilizarov frame. (D) Clinical photograph showing the patient before discharging from the hospital using crutches with partial weight-bearing.