Abstract

GONZALEZ GIL, JOSÉ MANUEL  and  GONZALEZ SALGADO, OMAR. An efficient surgical technique for infantile pes cavus. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1997, vol.11, n.1-2, pp.87-90. ISSN 0864-215X.

A study of 110 patients with congenital pes cavus, who were attended at the "William soler" Pediatric Teaching Hospital, is made. 106 of them were under 10 and the youngest ones were 5 years old. Of these cases, 98 were bilateral and 11 unilateral, which makes a total of 209 feet. All of them were operated on by using a surgical technique consisting in a section of the plantar fascia and of the plantar short flexor muscle by attrition with a clamp. Patients had to stand up and walked 24 hours after the operation. Hydrocortisone was administered during and immediately after the operation. The results were positive in most of the cases.

Keywords : FOOT DEFORMITIES [surgery]; ORTHOPEDICS [methods]; CHILD.