Rd. Esser, TREATMENT OF A BONE DEFECT OF THE FOREARM BY BONE TRANSPORT - A CASE-REPORT, Clinical orthopaedics and related research, (326), 1996, pp. 221-224
The technique of bone transport has been used in the lower extremities
to treat acute and chronic bone defect, It has not been applied to th
e upper extremities, An 8.0-cm defect of the ulna was treated with thi
s technique, using a unilateral bone transport system, At completion o
f the transport, bone graft was brought to the docking site, A 4.0-cm
radius defect was treated with free fibula graft and intramedullary na
iling, Treatment was completed with removal of the external fixator at
10 months, Complication was limited to transient superficial pin site
infection.