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Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 406-411 (March 2010)


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Congenital Pseudarthrosis of the Radius Treated With Gradual Distraction and Free Vascularized Fibular Graft: Case Report

Alexandros E. Beris, MD, Marios G. Lykissas, MDCorresponding Author Informationemail address, Ioannis Kostas-Agnantis, MD, Theofanis Vasilakakos, MD, Marios D. Vekris, MD, Anastasios V. Korompilias, MD

Received 4 June 2009; accepted 24 November 2009. published online 05 February 2010.

Only 18 cases of congenital radial pseudarthrosis have been reported in the English literature; of these, 4 have been treated with free vascularized fibular graft. We present a case of a 9-year-old female patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 who underwent gradual distraction through the pseudarthrosis site and subsequent vascularized fibular grafting for isolated congenital pseudarthrosis of her left radius and concomitant longitudinal and angular deformity of the wrist joint. At the last follow-up, 10 years postoperatively, the patient has maintained bony union, with full wrist flexion–extension and forearm pronation–supination.

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece

Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Marios G. Lykissas, MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, 45110, Greece

 No benefits in any form have been received or will be received related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.

PII: S0363-5023(09)01057-0

doi:10.1016/j.jhsa.2009.11.022


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