Small bone grafts of an ulna nonunion

The treatment of nonunions of the ulna has included direct current, compression plating, and bone-grafting. A case of compression plating and bone grafting of an ulnar nonunion in which the bone graft was obtained from the iliac crest with a Craig biopsy needle is described. This procedure allows bone graft to be harvested quickly with minimal postoperative morbidity. The procedure can be used in primary plating of fractures as well as in nonunions.