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Bone Healing and Bone Grafting Flashcards

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What are 2 sources of long bone blood supply seen in immature animals?

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  • Epiphyseal arteries

- Metaphyseal arteries

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What are 3 sources of long bone blood supply in mature animals?

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  • Principle nutrient artery
  • Metaphyseal arteries
  • Periosteal arteries
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What is a source of long bone blood supply seen with fractured bones?

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Development of extraosseous blood supply.

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What are 2 types of bone healing?

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  • Indirect healing

- Direct healing

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What are 3 steps seen in indirect healing (healing by intermediate callus formation)?

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  • Inflammation
  • Repair
  • Remodeling
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Healing by intermediate callus formation is known as what?

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Indirect healing

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Primary osteonal reconstruction is known as what?

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Direct healing

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What are 2 kinds of direct healing?

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  • Contact healing

- Gap healing

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What type of bone healing occurs with unstable mechanical environment and motion between fracture fragments?

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Indirect bone healing

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Indirect bone healing can be seen when the gap between the fracture fragments are what distance apart?

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> 1mm

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You will see what type of bone healing with impaired blood supply or impaired revascularization?

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Indirect bone healing

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Transient extraosseous blood supply develops with what type of bone healing?

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Indirect bone healing

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When does the inflammatory stage of indirect bone healing begin?

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Immediately after the fracture.

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How long does the inflammatory stage of indirect bone healing last?

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3-4 days

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What develops at the site of fracture?

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Clot

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Release of osteoinductive growth factors at the fracture site can cause what 2 things to happen?

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  • Stimulates angiogenesis

- Bone formation

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Abundant mast cells at the site of fracture can cause what?

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Vasoactive substances leading to new vessel formation.

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Extraosseous blood supply to the site of fracture occurs when?

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Within hours.

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During which stage of indirect bone healing does the clot change into granulation tissue by action of mononuclear cells and fibroblasts?

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Repair stage

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During the indirect bone healing repair stage, slight gain in mechanical strength is achieved with the formation of what?

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Formation of a soft callus.

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During the indirect bone healing repair stage, mesenchymal cells become what which form what?

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  • Osteoblasts

- A medullary and external callus (fibrocartilage).

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Resorption and mineralization of the fibrocartilage in the repair stage of indirect bone healing forms what?

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A hard callus.

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Bony union is achieved during what stage of indirect bone healing?

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Repair stage

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How long does the repair stage of indirect bone healing last?

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Approximately 2 months

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How long can the remodeling stage of indirect bone healing last in humans?

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6-9 years

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70% of total healing time seen with indirect bone healing takes place during what stage?

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Remodeling stage

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Which stage of indirect bone healing functions to provide optimal function and strength?

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Remodeling stage

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The balance of osteoclast resorption and osteoblast deposition takes place during what stage of indirect bone healing?

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Remodeling stage

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The remodeling stage of indirect bone healing is governed by what?
What are 2 aspects of this?

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  • Wolfe’s Law

- Compression (osteoblasts) and Tension (osteoclasts)

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Which type of bone healing refers to direct filling of fracture site with bone without callus formation?

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Direct Bone Healing

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Direct bone healing occurs by what?

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Direct osteonal proliferation

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Which type of bone healing requires precise reduction and rigid fixation that minimizes osteoprogenitor cells?

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Direct bone healing

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How long can direct bone healing take?

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6-12 months for appropriate mechanical strength.

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Contact healing of direct bone healing will be seen when the defect between the fracture site is what distance?

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< 0.01mm

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What type of healing will be seen with an interfragmentary strain < 2%?

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Contact healing

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Contact healing results in lamellar bone oriented in what direction?

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Normal axial direction.

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Bony union and remodeling occur simultaneously with what type of healing?

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Contact healing

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What type of bone healing is initiated by cutting cones of osteoclast directly followed by osteoblasts?

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Direct bone contact healing

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How far do cones of osteoclasts travel in a day?

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50-100 micrometers/day

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How big is a fracture gap?

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< 1mm

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How big is an interfragmentary strain?

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<2

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With direct bone gap healing, are bony union and remodeling separate steps or the same step?

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Separate steps

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Osteoblasts deposit what in the fracture gap in what orientation?

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Laminar bones in fracture gap perpendicular to long axis.

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With gap direct bone gap healing, the bone is mechanically weak where?

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At the fracture ends.

44
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In what time frame do osteoclasts form cutting comes allowing osteoblast to lay longitudinally oriented lamellar bone with direct bone gap healing?

45
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T/F: Cancellous bone is more stable than cortical bone (fractures).

46
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What is woven bone deposited on during the healing of cancellous bone?

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Trabeculae

47
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What occurs before the union of cortical shell in the healing of cancellous bone?

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Bridging of fracture site.

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Why does a physeal fracture occur?

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Because the area is weaker than the surrounding bone.

49
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How will a fracture of zone of hypertrophy will heal?

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By continued growth of physeal cartilage.

50
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How will a fracture of the zone of proliferation heal?

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By endochondrial ossification.

51
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What do physeal fractures prevent?

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Normal physeal function.

52
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Physeal fractures can lead to what?

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Premature physeal closure.

53
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An absolutely stable fracture is seen with what hype of bone healing?

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Direct bone healing

54
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An unstable fracture is seen with what type of bone healing?

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Indirect bone healing

55
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What are 6 factors affecting fracture healing?

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  • Location of fracture
  • Stability
  • Method of fixation
  • Biological environment
  • Blood supply
  • Biomechanical vs biological osteosynthesis
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What are 3 aspects of the biomechanical approach of fracture healing?

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  • Anatomical reduction
  • Rigid fixation
  • Will compromise soft tissue to achieve
57
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T/F: Biological osteosynthesis emphasizes the role of soft tissue integrity.

58
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What 2 things are restored with biological synthesis in fracture healing?

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  • Overall length

- Overall alignment

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What 2 things should be limited with biological osteosynthesis with fracture healing?

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  • Surgical approach

- Soft tissue disruption

60
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T/F: Biological osteosynthesis of fracture healing does not emphasize the use of bone grafts.

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False - It does emphasize the use of bone grafts.

61
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How do plates and ESF affect bone healing?

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May result in direct (contact or gap) healing.

62
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How do pins with wires, ESF and interlocking nails affect the type of bone healing?

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Direct and/or indirect healing

63
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How do casts and splints affect the type of bone healing?

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Indirect healing

64
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What type of bone healing is seen with no fixation?

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Indirect healing

65
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What 2 types of implants can disrupt endosteal blood supply and block medullary flow when in contact with endosteal surface?

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Intramedullary pins and nails

66
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Do cerclage wires and external fixator pins significantly impair vascularity?

67
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Where do bone plates impair blood supply to?

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The outer layer of cortical bone.

68
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What results in increased stability of the fracture and allows early reformation of medullary blood supply?

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Bone plate stabilization

69
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Loose implants may significantly damage what?

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Blood supply

70
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Open reduction and fixation may result in what?

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Damage to blood supply.

71
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Bone grafts will enhance what but will not compensate for what?

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Enhance healing but will not compensate for unstable mechanical environment.

72
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What are 3 indications of bone grafts?

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  • At initial fracture repair
  • Delayed or non-union fractures
  • Arthrodeses
73
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A bone graft from the patient’s own bone is known as what?

74
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Bone grafts using bone from another individual of the same species as the patient is known as what?

75
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Bone grafts using bone from an individual of another species are known as what?

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What are 3 types of bone grafts?

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  • Cancellous
  • Cortical
  • Cortical-cancellous
77
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Laying down new bone by osteoblasts is known as what?

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Osteogenesis

78
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Recruitment of host mesenchymal cells to form new bone or osteogenesis is known as what?

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Osteoinduction

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Providing a scaffold for the growth of new bone is known as what?

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Osteoconduction

80
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What is the gold standard of cancellous bone grafts?

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Autogenous

81
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What type of cancellous bone graft is readily available?

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Autogenous

82
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What type of cancellous bone graft helps to avoid immune reactions?

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Autogenous

83
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What are 5 disadvantages of autogenous cancellous bone grafts?

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  • Mechanically weak
  • Increased surgical time
  • Limited storage time
  • Pain at donor site
  • Intraoperative blood loss
84
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Which type of cancellous bone graft wis available as frozen chips or powder?

85
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What are 3 pros of allograph cancellous bone grafts?

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  • Decreased surgical time
  • Readily available
  • No donor site problems
86
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What are 2 problems with allograph cancellous bone grafts?

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  • Expensive

- Lack osteogenic properties

87
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Allograph cancellous bone grafts can be mixed with what other type of bone graft to increase volume?

88
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What are the 4 phases of cancellous bone graft effect?

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  • Phase I: inflammation (within hours)
  • Phase II: revascularization and Osteoinduction (2 weeks)
  • Phase III: Osteoconduction (3-4 weeks)
  • Phase IV: mechanical support (up to 12 weeks)
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What do cortical bone grafts provide?

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Structural support

90
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Do cortical bone grafts have osteoconductive properties?

91
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What type of bone grafts are used with highly comminuted fractures/bone tumors?

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Cortical bone grafts

92
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What are 4 bones where cortical autographs can be used?

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  • Ribs
  • Ulna
  • Fibula
  • Ilial wing
93
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What are 3 forms you can find allographs in?

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  • Harvested
  • Processed
  • Frozen
94
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What type of bone graft can be incorporated in the fracture site with surgical with surgical implants?

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Cortical bone grafts

95
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Osteoclasts move into the graft and do what?

A

Resorb bone

96
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Osteoblasts follow osteoclasts and do what?

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Lay down new bone.

97
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The phases of cortical bone graft effect are termed as what?

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“Creeping substitution”

98
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What does a cortical-cancellous bone graft contain?

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Both cortical and cancellous bone

99
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What type of bone graft provides immediate mechanical support?

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Cortical-cancellous bone grafts

100
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Do cortical-cancellous bone grafts promote osteogenesis?

101
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Are cortical-cancellous bone grafts both osteoinductive and osteoconductive?

102
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What is the most commonly used type of bone graft?

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Cancellous autograft

103
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Are cancellous autografts readily available?

104
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What type of bone grafts are highly cellular and mechanically weak?

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Cancellous autografts

105
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Which form of bone graft has less osteoconductive properties?

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Cancellous autografts

106
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Which type of bone graft has excellent mechanical support?

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Cortical bone grafts

107
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Which type of bone graft is more osteoconductive?

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Cortical bone grafts

108
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Which type of bone graft is acellular with no osteogenic properties?

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Cortical bone grafts

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