Telescoping vascularized fibular graft: a new method
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A Modified Heterotopic Swine Hind Limb Transplant Model for Translational Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Research
Published on: October 14, 2013
Akio Minami1, Hiroyuki Kato, Naoki Suenaga
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Kita-15-Jo, Nishi-7-Chome, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan.
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
|February 13, 2003
Abstract:
The authors describe a case of congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia treated with a telescoping vascularized fibular graft. The advantages of this new method are that bone union and leg-length discrepancy may be corrected simultaneously.
