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Bone Defect Treatment

Time and again, traumatologists and orthopedic surgeons have to deal with the issue of bone defects. Whether after major trauma, tumor resection or, for example, septic pseudarthrosis. The treatment is always a long-term treatment and due to the recurrent interventions unfortunately always associated with relatively high complication rates and high costs. Defects of a size of 4-5cm can usually be filled with autologous bone graft, heterologous bone from cadavers, or artificial bone graft substitutes. Defects larger than 5cm require either vascularized free bone transfer, the Induced Membrane (Masquelet-) Technique or Ilizarov distraction osteogenesis. In recent years, some additional new options have entered the treatment of bone defects. The use of autologous cell transplantation, either after expansion in culture ex vivo or without expansion in culture or the use of new materials or cell-material combinations from the 3D printer. In this collection I would like to give you an overview of the current treatment options, but also of possible future treatment methods. I hope that reading the articles belonging to this collection will give you an insight and help you to find the right treatment for your patient.

Editors

  • René D. Verboket

    René D. Verboket is a senior physician at the Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery at Frankfurt University Hospital. His research focus is on the regeneration of long-distance bone defects with Prof. Marzi and Prof. Henrich. Especially the field of translational research in relation to cell therapies is one of his specialties.

Articles (21 in this collection)