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Treatment of chronic osteomyelitis with muscle flaps
M J Patzakis1, K Abdollahi, R Sherman
1Department of Orthopaedics, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles.
The Orthopedic Clinics of North America
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
This article discusses a study of 36 patients with chronic osteomyelitis that had local or free muscle flaps. Reconstruction of chronic osteomyelitis requires infection control and assessment of soft tissue and bone. In patients with osteomyelitis with an ununited fracture or nonunion, stabilization of the fracture is needed.