Aim To study the character of blood circulation in the bone stump at tight and loose closure of the medullary cavity.Methods Two series of experiments on 39 rabbits with mid-third femoral amputation and muscular plasty were carried out. In the1st (experimental) series, the bone scapula was closed by thin cortical autograft taken from the epimetaphy...

By Viktor Shevchuk, Yurii Bezsmertnyi, Yankai Jiang, Olexander Branitsky, Halyna Bezsmertna, Dmytro Bondarenko

Aim To propose a new technique of Ertl-type surgery for significantly shortened and valgus deviated fibula stump. Methods We present the case of a 26-year-old patient who underwent reamputation surgery to replace a significantly shortened fibula stump using a distraction regenerate formed after tibial stump osteotomy and dosed distraction of t...

By Viktor Shevchuk, Yurii Bezsmertnyi, Olexander Bezsmertnyi, Olexander Branitsky