Tips of the trade #23. Simplified iliac crest cancellous grafting.
When fractures require small amounts of cancellous bone graft for healing but do not permit local bone harvesting, a simple percutaneous method may be used to obtain the graft from iliac crest. Using a winged iliac crest trephine (or any iliac crest biopsy trocar), the technique described is effective and markedly decreases morbidity.
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St. John Sports Medicine Center, Nassau Bay, Texas.
D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000637:transplantation*