title: A technique for prevention of donor site pain associated with harvesting iliac bone grafts.
abstract: Patients who have undergone anterior cervical spine fusion with an iliac bone graft frequently experience donor site pain after surgery. We found that an effective technique to avoid donor site pain is to round off the corners of the iliac crest with an air drill after harvesting the graft.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Kohsei Nenkin Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanishima
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yoshimasu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogai
mesh_terms: D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006615:Hip / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000637:transplantation*; D059408:Pain Management; D013123:Spinal Fusion