scapular spine a potential free vascularised bone graft anatomical study

ABSTRACT

Since the use of free vascularised rib graft by-Buncke 1978 and free vascularised fibular graft by Taylor 1975, investigators were on the search for new bones to be used as free vascularised grafts. Several bones where investigated since then, the iliac crest based on the superficial circumflex illiac or the deep circumflex iliac [Taylor 1979], the lateral crest of the scapula [Teot 1981] based on the circumflex scapular, the second metatarsal based on the dorsalis pedis artery [Macleod et al 1979]. Recently we have been trying to investigate the possibility of using the scapular spine based on the suprascapular vessels as a free vascularised graft