Reconstruction of a metacarpal head defect due to bite injury: two case reports

We present two rare cases of acute osteomyelitis after bite injury that were reconstructed with a third metacarpal base osteoarticular flap and a vascularised medial femoral trochlea osteocartilaginous flap. The outcomes show that a vascularised osteoarticular flap is a good treatment option for a m...

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Autores principales: Nakanishi, Akito, Kawamura, Kenji, Omokawa, Shohei, Shimizu, Takamasa, Tanaka, Yasuhito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30397633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2018.1509717
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author Nakanishi, Akito
Kawamura, Kenji
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Shimizu, Takamasa
Tanaka, Yasuhito
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description We present two rare cases of acute osteomyelitis after bite injury that were reconstructed with a third metacarpal base osteoarticular flap and a vascularised medial femoral trochlea osteocartilaginous flap. The outcomes show that a vascularised osteoarticular flap is a good treatment option for a metacarpal head defect.
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spelling pubmed-62112142018-11-05 Reconstruction of a metacarpal head defect due to bite injury: two case reports Nakanishi, Akito Kawamura, Kenji Omokawa, Shohei Shimizu, Takamasa Tanaka, Yasuhito Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report We present two rare cases of acute osteomyelitis after bite injury that were reconstructed with a third metacarpal base osteoarticular flap and a vascularised medial femoral trochlea osteocartilaginous flap. The outcomes show that a vascularised osteoarticular flap is a good treatment option for a metacarpal head defect. Taylor & Francis 2018-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6211214/ /pubmed/30397633 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2018.1509717 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Reconstruction of a metacarpal head defect due to bite injury: two case reports
title_fullStr Reconstruction of a metacarpal head defect due to bite injury: two case reports
title_full_unstemmed Reconstruction of a metacarpal head defect due to bite injury: two case reports
title_short Reconstruction of a metacarpal head defect due to bite injury: two case reports
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211214/
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