Results of free vascularized fibula grafting for allograft nonunion after limb salvage surgery for malignant bone tumors

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 809-814

  Bae, Donald S ^a   Waters, Peter M ^a   Gebhardt, Mark C ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Allograft fracture nonunion; Vascularized fibula

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DEXTRAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FREE VASCULARIZED FIBULA GRAFT; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PSEUDARTHROSIS; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750445605     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.bpo.0000235394.11418.c7     Document Type: Article

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