QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF DISTRACTION FORELIMB BONE GRAFT IN RABBITS IN EXPERIMENT

Abstract

The study involved using morphometry in quantitative and qualitative evaluation of reconstruction of rabbit forelimb distracted bone graft. The dynamics of bone graft remodeling process revealed during the experiment showed that relative vascular volume in the bone graft was 70 % increased, cell number was 60 % higher, meanwhile relative volume of tissue structures in the bone graft was lower than in the noninvolved bone. All those parameters can indicate that there is an ongoing process of osteogenesis in the graft.

Keywords

• distraction bone graft
• morphology