Clinical Study
Use of the Vascularized Iliac-Crest Flap in Musculoskeletal Lesions
Table 1
Clinical information.
| Patient | Age (years) | Sex | Previous diagnosis | Location | Amount of bone loss | Etiology of bone lesion (flap receptor) |
| Case 1 | 55 | M | Open fracture with bone loss in distal radius | Left radius | 6 cm | Trauma | Case 2 | 30 | F | Fracture of distal radius with median nerve injury | Right radius | 5 cm | Trauma | Case 3 | 25 | F | Open fracture of femur with bone loss | Left femur | 8 cm | Trauma | Case 4 | 23 | M | Open fracture of foot with a lesion and loss of soft tissue | Right first metatarsal | 6 cm | Trauma | Case 5 | 34 | M | Open fracture | Left femur | 8 cm | Trauma | Case 6 | 09 | M | Closed fracture of forearm that developed osteomyelitis after osteosynthesis with Kirschner wires | Left radius | — | Nonunion, secondary to osteomyelitis | Case 7 | 66 | M | Closed fracture treated with immobilization plaster | Right humeral diaphysis | — | Atrophic nonunion (conservative treatment) | Case 8 | 24 | F | Closed forearm fracture that developed osteomyelitis after osteosynthesis with DCP | Right radius | — | Nonunion, secondary to osteomyelitis | Case 9 | 56 | M | Closed fracture that developed atrophic nonunion of the radius after osteosynthesis with DCP | Right radius | — | Atrophic nonunion | Case 10 | 31 | M | Open fracture that developed osteomyelitis and nonunion after osteosynthesis with DCP | Left humerus | — | Nonunion, secondary to osteomyelitis | Case 11 | 40 | F | Closed fracture that developed atrophic nonunion of the radius after osteosynthesis with DCP | Right radius | 5 cm | Atrophic nonunion |
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M: male; F: female; DCP: dynamic compression plate.
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