Lengthening of free fibular grafts for reconstruction of the residual leg length discrepancy

BACKGROUND: We evaluated our results of lengthening of free vascularized fibular grafts using a unilateral external fixator in patients with residual leg length discrepancy after free vascularized fibular graft for lower limb reconstruction. CASES PRESENTATION: Two patients were administrated to our...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xianghong, Zhang, Tingting, Liu, Tang, Li, Zhihong, Zhang, Xiangsheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6368813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30736769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2445-z
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author Zhang, Xianghong
Zhang, Tingting
Liu, Tang
Li, Zhihong
Zhang, Xiangsheng
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Zhang, Tingting
Liu, Tang
Li, Zhihong
Zhang, Xiangsheng
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description BACKGROUND: We evaluated our results of lengthening of free vascularized fibular grafts using a unilateral external fixator in patients with residual leg length discrepancy after free vascularized fibular graft for lower limb reconstruction. CASES PRESENTATION: Two patients were administrated to our hospital with residual tibial length discrepancy after vascularized free fibular graft surgery. Lengthening of the free vascularized fibular graft with a unilateral external fixator was performed to correct the leg length discrepancy. Both patients recovered well with no difficult in activities of daily living at the last follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that lengthening of free vascularized fibular grafts with an external fixator is an effective treatment for massive residual leg shortening after vascularized free fibular graft surgery.
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spelling pubmed-63688132019-02-15 Lengthening of free fibular grafts for reconstruction of the residual leg length discrepancy Zhang, Xianghong Zhang, Tingting Liu, Tang Li, Zhihong Zhang, Xiangsheng BMC Musculoskelet Disord Case Report BACKGROUND: We evaluated our results of lengthening of free vascularized fibular grafts using a unilateral external fixator in patients with residual leg length discrepancy after free vascularized fibular graft for lower limb reconstruction. CASES PRESENTATION: Two patients were administrated to our hospital with residual tibial length discrepancy after vascularized free fibular graft surgery. Lengthening of the free vascularized fibular graft with a unilateral external fixator was performed to correct the leg length discrepancy. Both patients recovered well with no difficult in activities of daily living at the last follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that lengthening of free vascularized fibular grafts with an external fixator is an effective treatment for massive residual leg shortening after vascularized free fibular graft surgery. BioMed Central 2019-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6368813/ /pubmed/30736769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2445-z Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Zhang, Xianghong
Zhang, Tingting
Liu, Tang
Li, Zhihong
Zhang, Xiangsheng
Lengthening of free fibular grafts for reconstruction of the residual leg length discrepancy
title Lengthening of free fibular grafts for reconstruction of the residual leg length discrepancy
title_full Lengthening of free fibular grafts for reconstruction of the residual leg length discrepancy
title_fullStr Lengthening of free fibular grafts for reconstruction of the residual leg length discrepancy
title_full_unstemmed Lengthening of free fibular grafts for reconstruction of the residual leg length discrepancy
title_short Lengthening of free fibular grafts for reconstruction of the residual leg length discrepancy
title_sort lengthening of free fibular grafts for reconstruction of the residual leg length discrepancy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6368813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30736769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2445-z
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