Long bone reconstruction using multilevel lengthening of bone defect fragments

Reconstruction of Traumatic Bone Defect With In Situ Implantation of Dropped Traumatic Segmental Bone Fragments.

This study was conducted to determine whether in situ implantation of a dropped traumatic segmental bone fragment is safe and whether the authors' method would reduce the incidence of infectious and related complications. The authors retrospectively reviewed 16 patients with open fractures, including 11 with Gustilo-Anderson type IIIA fractures and 5 with Gustilo-Anderson type IIIB fractures wh...

Long bone deformity correction and bone lengthening procedures

Last year’s 34th Annual Meeting of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS) was held in Marseille, France, on 15–18 April. A comprehensive pre-meeting course held on 15 April was dedicated to many complex aspects of long-bone deformity correction and bonelengthening procedures. The present issue of the Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics collates manuscripts of the presentations made a...

Reconstruction of segmental bone defect of long bones after tumor resection by devitalized tumor-bearing bone

BACKGROUND The reconstruction of an intercalary bone defect after a tumor resection of a long bone remains a challenge to orthopedic surgeons. Though several methods have been adopted to enhance the union of long segmental allografts or retrieved segmental autografts to the host bones, still more progresses are required to achieve a better union rate. Several methods have been adopted to devita...

Bone lengthening.

Maxillary bone defect reconstruction using porous polyethylene implants.

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the bone repair process in the maxillary sinus in monkeys treated with high-density porous polyethylene (Medpor) METHODS Four capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) were submitted to bilateral horizontal osteotomies in the anterior wall of the maxillary sinus and divided into 2 groups: control group, left side with no implants, and porous polyethylene gr...