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. 1999 Jun;37(3):210-2.
doi: 10.1054/bjom.1999.0021.

Prophylactic plating of the donor site of osteocutaneous radial forearm flaps

V A Nuñez  1 , J Pike, C Avery, J W Rosson, P Johnson
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Prophylactic plating of the donor site of osteocutaneous radial forearm flaps

V A Nuñez et al. Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 1999 Jun.

Abstract

We carried out a retrospective study of fracture morbidity of radial forearm osteocutaneous donor sites. During a period of three-and-a-half years, 12 patients had had composite flaps taken, and 5 of them had subsequently fractured the radius. We then elected to plate the radius prophylactically and found that over a period of just over two years, none of the 8 patients who had had prophylactic plating at the original harvesting operation had subsequently fractured the radius.

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