title: Our experience with chemosterilized antigen-extracted autolyzed allografts (AAA) in a series of elective foot and ankle procedures.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  It is generally accepted that the golden standard for bone grafting is the autogenous bone.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of our retrospective study was to review and show a single-surgeon experience with chemosterilized antigen-extracted autolyzed (AAA) bone allograft in foot and ankle procedures.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study population consisted of 35 patients who were operated on between January 2005 and Januray 2009. All patients were eligible for inclusion in this study if their surgery was performed using the chemosterilized antigen-extracted autolyzed allogeneic bone (AAA). In this study, the authors wanted to emphasize the effectiveness of AAA bone grafts in reconstructive foot surgery. All allografts were harvested, prepared and obtained from West Hungarian Regional Tissue Bank Gybr.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Union was defined both clinically and radiografically and was established on subjective and objective criteria. A total of 35 consecutive foot and ankle implant procedures were performed, there were 32 healed sites (91.43%) 2 nonunion (5.71%) and 1 deep infection complication (2.86%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors have shown that AAA allograft is appropriate for reconstructive procedures of the foot and ankle with a low rate of complication (Tab. 1, Fig. 2, Ref. 8).
authors.affiliation: Petz Aladar County Teaching Hospital Gyor Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery Centre, Gyor, Hungary. almasijozef@yahoo.com
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Almasi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Csonge
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Galambos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000843:Ankle Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014021:Tissue Preservation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D055815:Young Adult