Acute Femoral Lengthening in Adults Using Step-Cut Osteotomy, Traction Table, and Proximal Femoral Locking Plate Fixation: Surgical Technique and Report of Three Cases.

Successful correction of structural LLD is challenging, depends on patient selection, meticulous planning, surgical technique and experience. Therefore, it should be considered case-by-case. In the hands of an experienced surgeon, our method of acute femoral lengthening seems safe and suitable for carefully selected cases of structural LLD correction, where the final lengthening goal remains within the critical limits of one-stage leg lengthening and principles of traction table use.