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Interporous hydroxyapatite as a bone graft substitute in tibial plateau fractures
R W Bucholz1, A Carlton, R Holmes
1Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
The metaphyseal defects in 40 patients with displaced tibial plateau fractures necessitating surgical repair were filled with either cancellous autograft or interporous hydroxyapatite. Roentgenographic and clinical assessments at follow-up periods averaging 15.4 months (autograft) and 34.5 months (hydroxyapatite) demonstrated no significant differences in the two groups. Interporous hydroxyapatite is a safe, effective alternative to autogenous cancellous bone for the filling of metaphyseal defects associated with tibial plateau fractures.