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  • Title: Healing of fractures with freeze-dried cortical bone plates. Comparison with compression plating.
    Author: Malinin T, Latta LL, Wagner JL, Brown MD.
    Journal: Clin Orthop Relat Res; 1984 Nov; (190):281-6. PubMed ID: 6386259.
    Abstract:
    The healing of fractures of the radius with internal fixation by stainless-steel compression plates was compared with fractures fixed with freeze-dried bone-plate allografts. Fractures fixed with metallic plates gained slightly less than half the biomechanical strength of the contralateral control bone and healed without noticeable external callus formation. Bone-plated fractures regained three-fourths of the biomechanical strength of controls and healed by forming an external callus. Bone-plate allografts were eventually incorporated in the host bone. Allograft plates were vascularized and remodeled into cancellous bone in the process of incorporation in the host bones.
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