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The Bone & Joint Journal
Vol. 100-B, Issue 4 | Pages 646 - 651
1 Apr 2018
Attias N Thabet AM Prabhakar G Dollahite JA Gehlert RJ DeCoster TA

Aims

This study reviews the use of a titanium mesh cage (TMC) as an adjunct to intramedullary nail or plate reconstruction of an extra-articular segmental long bone defect.

Patients and Methods

A total of 17 patients (aged 17 to 61 years) treated for a segmental long bone defect by nail or plate fixation and an adjunctive TMC were included. The bone defects treated were in the tibia (nine), femur (six), radius (one), and humerus (one). The mean length of the segmental bone defect was 8.4 cm (2.2 to 13); the mean length of the titanium mesh cage was 8.3 cm (2.6 to 13). The clinical and radiological records of the patients were analyzed retrospectively.