TREATMENT OF CONGENITAL PSEUDARTHROSIS OF THE TIBIA USING RECOMBINANT BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN AND BISPHOSPHONATES
β Scribed by Oliver Birke; Aaron Schindeler; Manoj Ramachandran; Lauren Peacock; Kathy Mikulec; Alyson Morse; Nicole Yu; Paul Baldock; Chris Cowell; Craig Munns; Michael Bellemore; David Little
- Book ID
- 116322732
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 8756-3282
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Eight vascularized fibula grafts and two vascularized rib grafts were used for the treatment of 10 Boyd's Type II congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia. All but one vascularized fibula graft united within 4 months. The two vascularized rib grafts did not unite until receiving a conventional bone gr
## Abstract Conventional methods for the treatment of congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia (CPT) often lead to unsatisfactory results and so microsurgical fibula transfer (MFT) has appeared as an option to treat this challenging problem. In this series of 27 patients with CPT, we obtained satisf