Abstract

PEREDA CARDOSO, Osvaldo. Coralline bioimplants in tibial plateau fractures. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1999, vol.13, n.1-2, pp. 132-136. ISSN 1561-3100.

8 clinical cases with diagnosis of depressed fracture of the tibial plateau were presented. The conventional surgical technique consisting in elevating the depressed zone through a distal metaphyseal window was used, but in these cases the resulting bone defect was filled with a block of porous coralline hydroxyapatite. The biomaterial was used to contribute to a fast consolidation according to its known inductive effect of osteogenesis and to produce an increase of the mechanical resistance in the zone at the expense of the penetrating proliferation of the tissue of bone neoformation in the interior of the implant, allowing an earlier support of the limb. In spite of the limited casuistics, results based on previous experiences with the use of this biomaterial in the filling of tumorlike cavities and traumatic bone defects or on its osteogenic effect in the treatment of pseudoarthrosis were offered.

Keywords : TIBIAL FRACTURES [surgery]; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS [administration & dosage].

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