Osteotomy and Autograft Lengthening for Intra-Articular Malunion of the Proximal Ulna: A Case Report

Job N. Doornberg; René K. Marti

doi:10.1155/2009/647126

Case Reports in Medicine (Jan 2009)

Osteotomy and Autograft Lengthening for Intra-Articular Malunion of the Proximal Ulna: A Case Report

Job N. Doornberg,
René K. Marti

Affiliations

Job N. Doornberg: Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Orthotrauma Research Center Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1100 DD Amsterdam Z-O, The Netherlands
René K. Marti: Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Orthotrauma Research Center Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1100 DD Amsterdam Z-O, The Netherlands

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/647126
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2009

Abstract

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An osteotomy with interposition of iliac crest bone graft and lengthening of the proximal ulna can be used to restore ulnohumeral congruency after a malunited comminuted olecranon fracture treated with figure-of-eight tension band wiring.

Published in Case Reports in Medicine

ISSN: 1687-9627 (Print); 1687-9635 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1683

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