Noninvasive vascular monitoring during limb lengthening
Stanitski, C.L.
Bulletin ) 52(1): 17
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0018-5647 PMID: 1422436 Document Number: 401383
Transcutaneous wires and pins in wire-tension Ilizarov external fixators provide frame stability, transfix and transport bone segments, produce distraction, and stimulate transosseous osteogenesis. Vascular compromise by the transfixing pins and wires is nevertheless an ongoing possibility. Based on earlier studies of a two-phase method of measuring vascular blood blow, noninvasive vascular monitoring was performed on three patients undergoing Ilizarov method limb lengthening.