Cement wedge replacing iliac graft in tibial wedge osteotomy
Goutallier, D.; Julieron, A.; Hernigou, P.
Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Reparatrice de l'Appareil Moteur 78(2): 138-144
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-1040 PMID: 1410722 Document Number: 396244
The authors report their experience in substituting cement for full-thickness iliac crest wedge in medial tibial wedge osteotomy using buttress plate fixation. A review of 107 osteotomies performed between January 1985 and March 1989, demonstrated that using cement wedge do not expose to any special complication and raise the accuracy of frontal mechanical axes correction. At last, cement wedge seems not to evolve as a stranger corpus able to give long or mean terms complications; it perhaps make unnecessary bone substitute or allografts wedges.