Concurrent Free Papers 7 - Paediatric Orthopaedics / General Orthopaedics: no. 7.3INTRODUCTION: Patients with severe rigid equinus deformity require corrective osteotomies to achieve a plantigrade foot. One such operation is the Lambrinudi triple arthrodesis. Many of these patients suffer from post-poliomyelitis deformity and have this operation within the first 2 decades of life. However, there is little in the literature describing long-term outcomes of these patients beyond 20 years. The study looked at the outcomes of patients from our centre over 30 years after their operations. METHODS: We traced 16 patients who had Lambrinudi operations at the Duchess of Kent Children’s Hospital from 1974 to 1979. The latest outcomes of 10 of these patients were found in the Clinical ...published_or_final_versio
