Complications of bone lengthening

Bone lengthening.

The biology of bone lengthening

Distraction osteogenesis biologically resembles fracture healing with distinctive characteristics notably in the distraction phase of osteogenesis. In the latency phase of bone lengthening, like in the inflammatory phase of fracture repair, interleukines are released and act with growth factors released from platelets in the local haematoma, leading to attraction, proliferation and differentiat...

Complications associated with bone lengthening of the lower limb by callotasis.

The present study aims to assess the incidence of complications related to bone lengthening procedures and to identify factors that may predict these complications. We retrospectively studied 51 lengthening procedures in 39 patients (mean age 13 years) from 2001 to 2015. A circular external fixator was used in 37 procedures and a monolateral fixator in 14 procedures. Duration of distraction, fi...

Relationship between radiologic morphology of the bone lengthening formation and its complications.

The objective was to study the different types of lengthened bone regeneration and their development during the various phases of the process to correlate them with patient factors and the surgical technique used, and to establish a possible relation between the development of the bone lengthening formation and the problems or complications. The authors studied the radiographs of a random group...

Fibula-related complications during bilateral tibial lengthening

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Complications related to the fibula during distraction osteogenesis could cause malalignment. Most published studies have analyzed only migration of the fibula during lengthening, with few studies examining the effects of fibular complications. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 120 segments (in 60 patients) between 2002 and 2009. All patients underwent bi...