%0 Journal Article
%T El colgajo muscular pediculado como variante de tratamiento en la osteomielitis cr¨®nica: a variant of osteomyelitis treatment
%A Mena P¨¦rez
%A Rafael
%A Murciano Guerra
%A Ram¨®n F.
%A Gonz¨¢lez Gonz¨¢lez
%A Pedro P.
%J Revista Cubana de Ortopedia y Traumatolog£¿-a
%D 2009
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X we made an interventional and prospective study in 11 patients presenting with chronic osteomyelitis, operated on using muscular pedicle flap technique from november, 1999 to october, 2007 in "h¨¦roes de baire" hospital in isla de la juventud municipality. average age was of 35 years, and the 100% was of male sex. there were 12 tibial lesions and 13 flaps were performed. the more predominant germ was staphylococcus aureus (41, 66%) which was isolated in 6 cases (54,54%). patient's course was excellent in 8 of them and good in three. necrosis present at the end of flaps was a complication, but with re-intervention it was solved. the aims of present paper were fulfilled: to implement the muscular flap techniques in this municipality, and create the musculocutaneous cover of exposed bone to eliminate the local infection.
%K pedicle flaps
%K chronic osteomyelitis
%K muscular flaps rotation.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0864-215X2009000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en