Abstract
The vascularized medial femoral condyle bone graft has many clinical applications. It can be harvested as a thin, pliable, corticoperiosteal graft and wrapped around recalcitrant nonunions in long bones to achieve osseous union. It can also be harvested as a small, structural, corticocancellous graft and used to treat small defects such as scaphoid avascular nonunion. We present a case of thumb metacarpal osteomyelitis resulting in a large segmental osseous defect. Reconstruction was performed using a large, structural, vascularized bone graft from the medial femoral condyle.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 715-718 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Hand Surgery |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 2009 |
Keywords
- Vascularized bone graft
- medial femoral condyle
- metacarpal osteomyelitis
- metacarpal reconstruction
- thumb reconstruction
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Surgery
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine