Reoperative Surgical Stabilization of a Painful Nonunited Rib Fracture Using Bone Grafting and a Metal Plate
- Authors
- Cho, Yang Hyun; Kim, Hyun Koo; Kang, Du-Young; Choi, Young Ho
- Issue Date
- 9월-2009
- Publisher
- LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
- Keywords
- rib; fracture; nonunion; bone graft
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA, v.23, no.8, pp.605 - 606
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA
- Volume
- 23
- Number
- 8
- Start Page
- 605
- End Page
- 606
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/119464
- DOI
- 10.1097/BOT.0b013e3181a16123
- ISSN
- 0890-5339
- Abstract
- We report a case of a nonunited sixth rib in a patient with multiple rib fractures who underwent internal fixation using a wire and Judet strut 3 times. During the following 3 years, the patient continued to complain of pain and instability. At surgery, a pseudarthrosis between the ends of the sixth rib was excised. A longitudinal gutter crossing the fracture site was fashioned and splinted with an inlay block of cancellous bone grafted from the iliac crest; stabilization was accomplished with a reconstruction plate and screws. The following 2 years of follow-up demonstrated no instability or pain.
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