论文信息 - Infected tibial nonunion. Good results after open cancellous bone grafting in 37 cases.

Infected tibial nonunion. Good results after open cancellous bone grafting in 37 cases.

We treated 37 infected tibial shaft nonunions by debridement followed by open autogenous cancellous bone grafting in a 2-stage procedure. Additional surgery was done in 21 fractures including second debridement before bone grafting and/or a second limited bone grafting and/or a split-thickness skin grafting. All fractures healed after an average of 11 (8-16) months. During 2 years follow-up there were no recurrences of the infection. Two cases of early refracture occurred, both healed following new bone grafting.

A. Emami | S. Larsson | B. Mjöberg

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