title: Vascularized bone transfer for tibial pseudarthrosis. Part I: Vascularized fibula transplantation. A report of 4 cases in the treatment of traumatic bone defects of the tibia.
abstract: The limited experience of reconstruction of four cases of large tibial defects with free vascularized fibular grafts is presented. Healing occurred in three of the four patients, and one developed a distal pseudarthrosis. One graft fractured twice but healed with a hypertrophic callus.
authors.affiliation: Dept. Orthopaedic Surgery, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: De Smet
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Van Damme
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Matton
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verdonk
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Claessens
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D016267:External Fixators; D005360:Fibula / Q000098:blood supply / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011542:Pseudarthrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D013977:Tibia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014945:Wound Healing