Two-stage reconstruction with free vascularized soft tissue transfer and conventional bone graft for infected nonunions of the tibia: 6 Patients followed for 1.5 to 5 years

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 878-883

  Schöttle, Philip B ^a   Werner, Clément M L ^a   Dumont, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BONE CEMENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE GRAFT; BONE INFECTION; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; TIBIA FRACTURE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING; FIBULA; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN FRACTURE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY;

ADULT; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644872504     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17453670510045534     Document Type: Article

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