A single-stage operation in the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis of the lower extremity including reconstruction with free vascularized iliac bone graft and free-tissue transfer

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2353-2361

  Rhomberg, Martin ^a   Frischhut, Bernhard ^b   Ninkovic, Marina ^b   Schwabegger, Anton H ^b   Ninkovic, Milomir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; LEG DISEASE; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BONE WIRES; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TARSAL BONES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 0037981578     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000061006.99819.24     Document Type: Article

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