| TITLE: | Treatment of non-unions of fractures of the tibial diaphysis by posterolateral cortical cancellous bone-grafting. | ||||||
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| AUTHORS: | Reckling FW; Waters CH 3d | ||||||
| SOURCE: | J Bone Joint Surg [Am] 1980 Sep;62(6):936-41 | ||||||
| CITATION IDS: | PMID: 7000787 UI: 81046995 | ||||||
| ABSTRACT: | A series of forty-four consecutive tibial diaphyseal fractures with non- unions were treated over a thirteen-year period (1965 to 1978). The majority of these injuries were complicated by severe soft-tissue damage, segmental bone loss, or infection, and multiple previous operative attempts had been made to obtain union. Cortical cancellous bone grafts were inserted posterolaterally and union was obtained in all but one fracture. Two bone-grafting procedures each were needed in three patients. Good to excellent functional results were obtained in forty-three of the forty-four involved extremities. | ||||||
| MAIN MESH HEADINGS: |
Bone and Bones/*transplantation *Bone Transplantation Fractures, Ununited/*surgery Tibial Fractures/*surgery | ||||||
| ADDITIONAL MESH HEADINGS: |
Adolescence Adult Case Report Female Fractures, Closed/surgery Fractures, Open/surgery Human Male Methods Middle Age Postoperative Complications Transplantation, Autologous 1980/09 1980/01 00:00 | ||||||
| PUBLICATION TYPES: | JOURNAL ARTICLE | ||||||
| LANGUAGES: | Eng | ||||||