Distal radius correction osteotomy with tricortical bone graft is a successful method in heavy smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Corrective osteotomy is a technically challenging surgical option to improve wrist function in tilted distal radius malunions. However fracture healing in smokers is adversely affected. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical and radiological effect of cigarettes on bone union in heavy-smokers who underwent corrective osteotomy with a triangular bone graft harvested from the iliac crest.

Method

Fifteen patients, who were treated using trapezoidal block grafts taken from the iliac crest, who were smokers of 20 or more cigarettes daily (heavy smokers) with no chronic disease, and who consented to participate in the study. Fifteen non-smoker patients of the same age group were determined as the control group. Radiological measurements were made to include

SUBMITTER: Yaradılmıs YU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6994735 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature