Use of the microvascular free fibula transfer as a salvage reconstruction for failed anterior spine surgery due to chronic osteomyelitis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2438-2445

  Erdmann, Detlev ^a   Meade, Ricardo A ^b   Lins, Robert E ^b   McCann, Richard L ^b   Richardson, William J ^b   Levin, L Scott ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE GRAFT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; FEMALE; FIBULA; HUMAN; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; SPINE DISEASE; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBULA; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSTEOMYELITIS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 33745382949     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000219077.73229.af     Document Type: Article

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