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Table 3 Type and number of interventions performed at each GMFCS-level during childhood

From: Change in popliteal angle and hamstrings spasticity during childhood in ambulant children with spastic bilateral cerebral palsy. A register-based cohort study

 

n

Total number of surgeries In lower extremities. n (%)

Hamstrings tenotomy n (%)

BTX lower extr. n (%)

BTX Hamstring n (%)

SDR/ITB n (%)

BTX/Surgery/ITB/SDR n (%)

GMFCS I

198

22 (11.8%)

5 (2.7%)

81 (43.6%)

24 (12.9%)

0/0

86 (43.4%)

GMFCS II

116

35 (30.2%)

7 (6.0%)

77 (66.4%)

25 (21.6%)

3/0 (2.6%/0%)

81 (69.8%)

GMFCS III

105

44 (41.9%)

17 (16.2%)

66 (62.9%)

37 (35.2%)

9/2 (8.6%/1.9%)

76 (72.4%)

Total

419

101 (24.1%)

29 (6.9%)

224 (53.5%)

86 (20.5%)

12/2 (2.9%/0.5%)

243 (58%)

  1. GMFCS: gross motor function classification system, Extr.: extremities, SDR: selective dorsal rhizotomy, ITB: intrathecal baclofen. The (%) is calculated from the number children at each GMFCS level
  2. An intervention is only registered once pr child, however, one child may have had more than one type of intervention/surgery
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BMC Pediatrics

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