TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Ankle Joint
KW - Arteries
KW - Female
KW - Fibula
KW - Gait Disorders, Neurologic
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Peroneal Nerve
AU - Dong L
AU - Li F
AU - Jiang J
AU - Zhang G
AB - <p>Devascularized bone grafts are pieces of dead bone and they simply serve as scaffolds for new bone to grow and fill the gap, taking a long time when they succeed in doing so. In contrast, vascularized grafts being living tissues have short healing time, great vitality and strong infection-resisting capacity. We report here the successful use of vascularized grafts of the lower end of fibula for fusing the ankle in five leprosy patients.</p>
BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11212476?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 2000 Oct-Dec
IS - 4
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Devascularized bone grafts are pieces of dead bone and they simply serve as scaffolds for new bone to grow and fill the gap, taking a long time when they succeed in doing so. In contrast, vascularized grafts being living tissues have short healing time, great vitality and strong infection-resisting capacity. We report here the successful use of vascularized grafts of the lower end of fibula for fusing the ankle in five leprosy patients.</p>
PY - 2000
SP - 431
EP - 6
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - Transplantation of fibula with vascular pedicle for fusion of ankle in leprotic drop-foot.
VL - 72
SN - 0254-9395
ER -