Ilizarov frame is a heavy structure which causes pain and many other complications of keeping the frame longer, to reduce the complication and time of frame, the methods used called lengthening over the nail.
In conventional ilizarov method the frame must remain attached for the entire lengthening and the consolidation.
LON (Lengthening over nail) minimise the period of external fixator attachment.
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