Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4070686 | The Journal of Hand Surgery | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The vascularized medial femoral condyle bone graft has many clinical applications. It can be harvested as a thin, pliable, corticoperiosteal graft and wrapped around recalcitrant nonunions in long bones to achieve osseous union. It can also be harvested as a small, structural, corticocancellous graft and used to treat small defects such as scaphoid avascular nonunion. We present a case of thumb metacarpal osteomyelitis resulting in a large segmental osseous defect. Reconstruction was performed using a large, structural, vascularized bone graft from the medial femoral condyle.
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Authors
Douglas M. Sammer, Allen T. Bishop, Alexander Y. Shin,