Free vascularized iliac bone transplantation in treatment of bone defects in shin bone and tarsal bone's

ABSTRACT

A retrospective study was carried out in 5 patients with bone defect in the pelvic limbs (male: 4, female: 1), ages of 22-42 in which due to injuries (2), weapon (1), osteomyelitis (1) and synovioma damaging the tarsal bone (1). These patients received the free vascularized iliac bone-cutaneous transplantation. The results showed that 4 patients healed the incision in the first phase and one patient healed the incision in 2nd phase. 3 patients had infection, 1 patient was stable and 1 patient had no infection.