Rigidity comparison of locking plate and intramedullary fixation for tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis.

摘要

Dear Colleagues,I appreciated the ingenious and thorough study published recently in Foot & Ankle International (O'Neill et al., June 2008), comparing the stability of two alternative fixation strategies for ankle fusions, but was slightly bemused by an apparent inconsistency between the text and the graphical presentation of the results (Figure 6).