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Transport Intramedullary Nail for Nonunion.

Crist Brett D BD, Lee Mark A MA

Nonunions with bone defects create technical challenges for fracture healing. All-internal bone transport with an intramedullary nail offers benefits over the other bone segment transport options including being simpler for the patients, avoiding the associated soft tissue issues that externally based implants or techniques and minimizing residual deformity by maintaining the anatomical axis along the intramedullary nail. This article reviews preoperative planning, technical tricks and specific techniques for internal bone transport, including the corticotomy, distraction, docking site and regenerate management, and the available literature.

Intramedullary Bone Transport Nail for the Treatment of Segmental Tibial Bone Defect After Acute Traumatic Bone Loss.

Scolaro John A JA

Medullary bone transport is a valuable technique to perform distraction osteogenesis with all-internal components. This technique has notable advantages over other techniques which rely on external pins, wires, and frames. Preoperative templating and surgical planning are critical to the success of this procedure to ensure that movement of the segment across the defect can be performed based on the specifications of the nail. The case of a young patient with a 67 mm diaphyseal tibial defect after an open tibial shaft fracture who had successful reconstruction with a medullary bone transport nail is presented.

Another Nail In The Coffin for Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion?

Teimouri Dereshgi Amir A, Chin Clifford W CW, Shah Ashish S AS, Bommareddi Swaroop S et al.

New Technology for the Treatment of Bone Defects and Limb Length Discrepancies with a Motorized Intramedullary Bone Transport Nail.

Frumberg David B DB, Vasudevan Rajiv S RS, Wellings Elizabeth P EP

Bone defects are among the most challenging problems treated by limb reconstruction surgeons and orthopaedic traumatologists. Bone transport is a biological reconstruction technique which harnesses distraction osteogenesis to create new bone in critical bone defect. This technique has been successfully performed with a variety of internal and external solutions. This work introduces a newly available technology which provides a fully implantable, all-internal solution (eg, without the need for external fixation) for bone transport with the option to simultaneously address residual limb length discrepancy.