Traumatic Absence of the Shaft of the Radius in a Child: A 15-Year Follow-up after Reconstruction by a Modified Define's One Bone Forearm Procedure.

We report a 5-year-old boy with traumatic absence of the entire right radial shaft. The Define's reconstruction procedure was chosen to localize the surgery only to the distal forearm and avoid further additional damage to the forearm muscles. The child's forearm was successfully reconstructed by the authors' modified Define's procedure, which was followed until his maturity. Hand function was well maintained. PMID: 29854353 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29854353?dopt=Abstract

Source: Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery - June 3, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Clin Orthop Surg Source Type: research

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