Reamer Irrigator Aspirator: A New Technique for Bone Graft Harvesting from the Intramedullary Canal

Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-113

  Pape, Hans Christoph ^a   Tarkin, Ivan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

autologous grafting; bone graft; femoral canal reaming; reaming of the femur

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CANCELLOUS BONE; FEMUR; FLUOROSCOPY; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAMER IRRIGATOR ASPIRATOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 58449114107     PISSN: 10486666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.oto.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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