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19399881

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-7-6
pubmed:abstractText
Vascularized bone transfer is increasingly recognized as a very useful and versatile technique for reconstructing large bone defects. It is especially indicated in patients with challenging conditions, such as nonunions, postoncologic resections, severe trauma, and congenital defects. With increasing experience of reconstructive surgeons, improved microsurgical techniques, and more enhanced flaps, the failure rate of free flaps has been reduced in the last decades. Especially, the early-postoperative period is decisive in the outcome of surgery. Several techniques have been described for monitoring the postoperative viability of microsurgical free vascularized graft, and their sensitivity and reliability continues to be the object of animal experiments and clinical trials. The qualities of an optimal monitoring device should be objective, continuous, noninvasive, safe, reproducible, easily managed, and interpretable for the nursing staff, inexpensive, and a clear indicator of changes in arterial and venous circulation. Presently, no one neither fulfills all of the criteria completely nor is uniformly accepted. In this article, relative advantages and disadvantages of these various postoperative monitoring techniques are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1098-2752
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
29
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
401-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Postoperative monitoring of free vascularized bone grafts in reconstruction of bone defects.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review