We report 1 case of successful treatment of radius and ulna nonunion by a folded vascularized fibular graft, in which 2 parallel fibular struts remained connected by the periosteum and peroneal vessels, and another case of infected nonunion of the ulna and radius with osseous and soft tissue defects treated by a free fibular osteoseptocutaneous flap with folded fibular graft in a 1-stage procedure.
Department of Orthopedics, Lanzhou General Hospital of Lanzhou Military Region, People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China. zhenpingok@163.com
J Hand Surg Am. 2010 Jan 1; 35 (1): 72-6.
AbstractWe report 1 case of successful treatment of radius and ulna nonunion by a folded vascularized fibular graft, in which 2 parallel fibular struts remained connected by the periosteum and peroneal vessels, and another case of infected nonunion of the ulna and radius with osseous and soft tissue defects treated by a free fibular osteoseptocutaneous flap with folded fibular graft in a 1-stage procedure.Copyright 2010. Published by Elsevier Inc.