Free vascularized iliac bone transplantation in treatment of bone defects in shin bone and tarsal bone's
- Author:
Tien Viet Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
bone transplantation
- MeSH:
bone transplantation;
therapeutics;
abnormalities;
bone and bones
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;408(2):33-36
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A retrospective study was carried out in 5 patients with bone defect in the pelvic limbs (male: 4, female: 1), ages of 22-42 in which due to injuries (2), weapon (1), osteomyelitis (1) and synovioma damaging the tarsal bone (1). These patients received the free vascularized iliac bone-cutaneous transplantation. The results showed that 4 patients healed the incision in the first phase and one patient healed the incision in 2nd phase. 3 patients had infection, 1 patient was stable and 1 patient had no infection.
