Brown Benjamin J, Higgins James P, Katz Ryan D
The Curtis National Hand Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
The Curtis National Hand Center, Baltimore, MD.
Microsurgery. 2013 Oct;33(7):567-71. doi: 10.1002/micr.22158. Epub 2013 Aug 28.
Recalcitrant nonunions typically require vascularized bone for reconstruction. In this report, we present a case of an index finger middle phalanx nonunion that was successfully treated with a free medial femoral condyle corticocancellous flap. Nearly 2 years after the free tissue transfer, the patient underwent debulking of the bone flap. This gave us the unique opportunity to examine the histology of the vascularized bone.
