[Attached rib grafts used in anterior spondylodesis]. / O nesvobodnykh rebernykh transplantatakh, ispol'zuemykh pri perednem spondilodeze.

The development of reparative processes after resection of the vertebrum bodies and anterior spondylodesis by a not-free rib transplant was studied in experiment and in 95 patients. Only in 1 of them the supporting capacity of the vertebral column was not restored. Transplants on the feeding pedicles for anterior spondylodesis should be used in all the cases where there are anatomical prerequisites for the formation of its feeding pedicle.

[Theoretical basis for and the results of using bone marrow-devoid spongy allografts in the surgery of tuberculous spondylitis in adults]. / Teoreticheskoe obosnovanie i rezul'taty primeneniia lishennykh kostnogo mozga gubchatykh allotransplantatov v khirurgii tuberkuleznogo spondilita u vzroslykh.

Experimental studies over 189 animals have proved that spongy allografts, devoid of the bone marrow, possess high plastic properties, get very soon replaced with a newly formed bone tissue and reconstruct. Experimental and clinical findings advocate, the rationality of their use of antero-lateral spondylodesis in tuberculous spondylitis.