Leg lengthening for short stature in Turner's syndrome

We describe ten patients with Turner's syndrome (karyotype 45, XO) who had leg lengthening for short stature. A high incidence of postoperative compli cations was encountered and many patients required intramedullary fixation as a salvage procedure. We discuss the reasons for this and highlight the d ifferences between our findings and those of a similar series recently repo rted. In view of the considerable difficulties encountered, we do not recom mend leg lengthening in Turner's syndrome.