Risk of infection related to the use of cryopreserved bone grafts from domestic banks
Mainard, D.; Menzies, D.; Roland, H.; Blech, M.F.; Delagoutte, J.P.
Agressologie Revue Internationale de Physio-Biologie et de Pharmacologie Appliquees Aux Effets de l'Agression 33(Special Issue 3): 131-135
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-1148 PMID: 1340105 Document Number: 402814
The authors report their experience of a home bone bank of cryopreserved femoral heads on a period of 3 years. They remind the rules to observe for the harvesting, the storage and the utilization of these allografts, and also the indispensable biological tests (at the moment when the article was written). About their series, the authors remind the risks of infection in relation with the utilization of femoral head from bone bank, which justify a great rigour in the organization and the managing of these home bone bank.