Surgical angiogenesis for scaphoid non-union: A literature review
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Zafar, U
Nusem, I
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Non-union of scaphoid bone fractures, though an uncommon occurance, are a signficant cause of morbidity in young patients. This review outlines the current understanding of vascularised bone grafts and non-union, and examines the most current clinical literature regarding the role of these procedures in modern orthopaedic practice. Composite evidence from level III studies would support using osseous grafts on a vascular pedicle for patients with non-union of the proximal end of the scaphoid with associated avascular necrosis and in cases of revision surgery where a previous non-vascularised graft has failed to achieve bony union.
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Vascular Cell
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12
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© 2019, Jamie Corcoran, Usama Zafar, Iulian Nusem. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://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 (https://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Biochemistry and cell biology
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Corcoran, J; Zafar, U; Nusem, I, Surgical angiogenesis for scaphoid non-union: A literature review, Vascular Cell, 2020, 12 (1)