[Use of demineralized allogeneic bone transplants for plastic surgery of osteomyelitic cavities]. / Primenenie demineralizovannykh kostnykh allotransplantatov dlia plastiki osteomieliticheskikh polostei.

Plasty of osteomyelitic cavities with demineralized bone transplants was performed in 55 patients. Different methods of the bone cavity plasty were used with regard for the state of soft tissues surrounding the pathological focus, changes in the purulent focus. In most of the patients (41) the cavity was filled up with the demineralized bone transplant formed with special reference to the size of the bone wound. In the other 14 patients with false joints complicated by osteomyelitis the bone allotransplant was put in the area of the defect as a duplicator. Good results were obtained in 53 (96.4%) patients.

[Immobilization of the lower limbs after cross plastic surgery]. / Immobilizatsiia nizhnikh konechnostei pri perekrestnoi plastike.

On the basis of the experience with the treatment of 105 patients the authors describe methods of immobilization of lower extremities for the substitution of a bone wound or a soft tissue defect by a skin, muscle or skin-muscle pedicle graft formed on the other extremity.