Patients treated with the Ilizarov frame had gradual angular correction as well as lengthening, while those treated with a monolateral device had acute angular correction at frame application, followed by lengthening.
It may, however, also be related to the fact that the patients treated with the monolateral device had acute angular correction, whereas the patients treated with the circular frame had gradual correction.
Seven patients (7 feet) required the addition of a circular frame for gradual skeletal postoperative correction, whereas in 6 feet the correction was completed acutely and stabilized with Kirschner wires (K-wires).
An efficient way of assessing steel frame behavior including gradual yielding associated with residual stresses and flexure and second-order effect is presented.
Efficient ways of assessing steel frame behavior including gradual yielding associated with residual stresses and flexure, second-order effect, and geometric imperfections are presented.
The computational programme was developed on the basis of the inelastic stability function of the beam column element, and it can be used to assess the steel frame behaviour, including gradual yielding associated with residual stresses, second-order effects, geometrical imperfections and the flexibility of beam-to-column connections.
The aim of this study is to report the results of a safer technique for the double elevation osteotomy combined with gradual correction using the Ilizarov frame, allowing it to be more reproducible, less technically demanding and avoid those potential complications.
At the same location surrounding the needle, semi-variogram analysis of B-scan ultrasound images revealed a gradual change in the shape of the semi-variogram curve during the successive ultrasound frames acquired during needle rotation.
This is quite different from the inter-A-line phase changes within a fast beam scanning frame, which usually is gradual.
Gradual transitions take place over multiple frames and can have many different effects.
