Medium-Long-Term Radiographic and Clinical Outcomes after Surgical Treatment of Intra-Articular Tibial Pilon Fractures by Three Different Techniques

Table 3

In these cases the definitive EF was used due to the severity of tissue damage and bad local skin conditions at the time of trauma.

AO classification	Surgical techniques		Ovadia & Beals criteria			AOFAS	PCS	MCS	Gustilo & Anderson; open fracture			Tissue damage
	Type	N°	Good	Fair	Poor				I	II	III
43-B1	MIPO	3	3	-	-	94.0	57.8	54.5	1	-	-	1
	ORIF	2	2	-	-	87.0	49.2	45.0	-	-	-	-
	EF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
43-B2	MIPO	3	2	1	-	66.7	40.0	42.4	-	-	-	-
	ORIF	6	5	1	-	94.0	52.5	43.6	1	-	-	2
	EF	1	-	1	-	68.0	46.7	36.1	-	-	-	1
43-B3	MIPO	1	-	1	-	60.0	39.8	41.2	-	-	-	-
	ORIF	16	9	6	1	76.3	47.2	43.1	2	-	-	5
	EF	2	-	2	-	40.0	20.3	43.7	-	2	-	2
43-C1	MIPO	2	1	1	-	82.5	49.4	46.2	-	-	-	-
	ORIF	16	15	1	-	81.3	44.2	49.2	-	-	-	5
	EF	1	-	-	1	60.0	38.0	28.0	-	1	-	1
43-C2	MIPO	6	6	-	-	87.0	48.2	50.5	-	-	-	-
	ORIF	15	11	3	1	82.3	44.5	42.7	-	-	-	7
	EF	5	2	1	2	63.8	40.0	43.9	1	2	-	4
43-C3	MIPO	2	2	-	-	86.0	56.1	56.3	-	-	-	2
	ORIF	8	3	5	-	74.8	43.4	54.2	2	-	-	7
	EF	5	-	3	2	36.2	25.1	37.1	-	1	2	4