The transarticular graft for infantile pseudarthrosis of the tibia. a new technique
Baw, S.
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume 57(1): 63-68
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0301-620X PMID: 123249 Document Number: 85642
Fourteen cases of pseudarthrosis of the tibia in childhood presented at a hospital in Burma over a period of eight years. The ages of the patients ranged from one month to seventeen years. Nine were treated by a pointed graft driven into the medullary cavity of the distal tibia, and usually across the ankle joint into the body of the talus, before fixation to the proximal tibia. In six of the nine union was secured, but one case required a second grafting. Transarticular segments of graft showed a marked tendency to undergo absorption. No significant deformity was observed to follow central penetration of the growth plate and epiphysis of the lower tibia.