Table 1 Summary of Included Studies
ID | Data type | Patients Number | Gender | Age(year) | Fixator System | Soft-tissue Reconstruction | Satisfactory Result | Sequelae-free | Infection Free | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Bone | Function | Bone | Function | |||||||
Dendrinos 1995 [38] | IPD | 28 | 23 | 5 | 37.43(18~74) | Ilizarov EF | – | 24 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 28 |
Eralp 2016 [43] | IPD | 6 | 3 | 3 | 48.33(33~79) | Ilizarov EF; TSF | 1b | – | 4 | – | 2 | 6 |
Khan 2015 [44] | IPD | 6 | 6 | 0 | 40.60(19~55) | Ilizarov EF | 3b | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Kocaoglu 2006 [17] | IPD | 7 | 5 | 2 | 35.29(18~52) | Hybrid Fixator | 2b; c | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
Lalit 2000 [40] | IPD | 16 | 16 | 0 | 30.81(17~46) | Ilizarov EF | – | 11 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 14 |
Liu 2012 [45] | IPD | 35 | 25 | 10 | 37.29(18~64) | EF | 5b | 33 | 34 | 28 | 30 | 32 |
Marko 2010 [46] | IPD | 30 | 29 | 1 | 30.57(20~49) | Ilizarov EF | – | 29 | 27 | 19 | 13 | 30 |
Oh 2008 [16] | IPD | 10 | 10 | 0 | 46.00(18~76) | Hybrid Fixator | 5b | – | 10 | – | 4 | 9 |
Oh 2013 [47] | IPD | 10 | 9 | 1 | 40.40(16~64) | Hybrid Fixator | 4b | 10 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 10 |
Panagiotis 2010 [48] | IPD | 6 | 5 | 1 | 34.50(21~52) | Ilizarov EF | 2b | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
Zhang 2016 [19] | IPD | 14 | 13 | 1 | 38.07(21~62) | Mono-lateral EF; Hybrid Fixatorsa | 1b;2c | 14 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 5;6a |
Emara 2008 [18] | AD | 33 | 22 | 11 | 29 | Ilizarov ring; Hybrid Fixatorsa | – | 33 | 28 | 32 | 25 | 16;16a |
McNally 2017 [22] | AD | 18 | – | – | – | Ilizarov ring | – | 14 | 17 | 13 | 13 | 18 |
Peng 2015 [49] | AD | 58 | 38 | 20 | 29.4(18~51) | Ilizarov ring | – | 53 | 46 | 30 | 28 | 57 |
Rohilla 2016 [4] | AD | 70 | 62 | 8 | 31.25(18~65) | Mono-lateral EF; Ring EF | 0 | 62 | 55 | 35 | 28 | 35 |
Sadek 2016 [5] | AD | 14 | 12 | 2 | 29.50 | Ring EF | 8 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 14 |
Tetsworth 2017 [7] | AD | 21 | 18 | 3 | 38.2(18~66) | Ring/Ilizarov EF | – | 20 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 21 |
Tong 2017 [50] | AD | 13 | – | – | – | Mono-lateral EF; Ilizarov EF | – | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
Yin 2014 [51] | AD | 72 | – | – | – | Ilizarov EF | – | 63 | 52 | 46 | 25 | 72 |
Eralp 2012 [13] | AD | 15 | 14 | 3 | 39(25~69) | Hybrid Fixator | – | 14 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 14 |
Gupta 2018 [52] | AD | 14 | 13 | 1 | 38.1 | Hybrid Fixator | 1b | 14 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 13 |
Madhusudhan 2008 [53] | AD | 22 | – | – | – | Ilizarov EF | 4b | 13 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 |