title: Tips of the trade #23. Simplified iliac crest cancellous grafting.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: St. John Sports Medicine Center, Nassau Bay, Texas.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: O'Neill
mesh_terms: D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000637:transplantation*