DIGITAL RAY RECONSTRUCTION VIA DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS LENGTHENING

Primary resective shortening followed by

Primary resective shortening followed by distraction osteogenesis for limb reconstruction: A comparison with simple lengthening

✍ Rainer H. Meffert; John E. Tis; Nozomu Inoue; Edward F. McCarthy; Erwin Brug; Ed 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 792 KB

## Abstract Resective distraction osteogenesis is a new approach to treat segmental diaphyseal bone defects by primary limb shortening and secondary distraction osteogenesis from the same site. A rabbit model was introduced to compare the bone‐regeneration characteristics of this technique with tho