OTA 1997 Posters - Scientific Basis for Fracture Care

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Paul Tornetta, III, MD, Steve V. Nguyen, Mario Brkaric

University Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Improved Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone: A Novel Locked Supracondylar Buttress Plate

Jordan A. Simon, MD, James Hale, BS, Fred Kummer, PhD, Kenneth J. Koval, MD

New York, New York, USA

Mouse Distraction Osteogenesis: A Novel Model to Study the Molecular Mechanisms of Bone Healing and Regeneration

Bobby K-B Tay, MD, Anh S. Le, MD, Stephen E. Gould, PhD, Jill A. Helms, DDS, PhD

San Francisco, California, USA

Vascularized Fibula Bone Transplant for Limb Salvage following Long Bone Fracture with Subsequent Chronic Osteomyelitis and Nonunion

Iris Yaron, MD, Robert J. Strauch, MD, Harold M. Dick, MD, Melvin P. Rosenwasser, MD, Maurico F. Herrara, MD

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

The Vacuum Sealing Technique - A Clinical Trial

Thomas Muellner, MD, L. Mrkonjic, O. Kwasny, V. Vécsei

Univ. Clinic of Traumatology, Vienna, Austria

*Mechanical Strength of Used External Skeletal Fixators

Douglas R. Dirschl, MD

UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

*Healing Time Course of Tibial Segmental Defects in Dogs using the OP-1 Device

Paul P. Hospodar, MD, Eric H. Ledet, MS, Barton L. Sachs, MD, Richard L. Uhl, MD

Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA

Poster #9

Infection Rate of Coralline Hydroxyapatite in Tibial Plateau, Tibial Pilon and Calcaneal Fractures: A Prospective Study

Alexandra K. Schmitt, MD, Stuart M. Gold, MD, Daniel M. Zinar, MD

Torrance, California, USA

Poster #10

*Computed Radiography and Ultrasound as Non-Invasive Predictor of Bone Regenerate Stiffness in Distraction Osteogenesis

Stefan Kolbeck, MD, Hermann Bail, MD, Andreas Weiler, MD, Michael Raschke, MD, Prof. Norbert P. Haas, MD

Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Virchow Clinic, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Poster #11

*Distraction Osteogenesis in a Micropig Animal Model. An Alternative Sequence of Regenerate Formation

Hermann Josef Bail, MD, M. Raschke, S. Kolbeck, A. Weiler, N. P. Haas

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Poster #13

Re-Induction of the Hedgehog Signaling Pathway during Fracture Healing

Anh X. Le, MD, Motoki Iwasaki, MD, PhD, David S. Bradford, MD, Theodore Miclau, MD, Jill A. Helms, DDS, PhD

Orthopaedic Molecular Biology Laboratory, San Francisco, California, USA

Poster #55

Intramedullary Locked Nailing with Diastasis in Rat Femora - A Pseudarthrosis Model

Roel Bierling, Kari Indrekvam, Oliver Grundnes, Anders Mölster

Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Poster #56

Femoral and Cruciate Blood Flow after Retrograde Femoral Reaming

Amr W. ElMaraghy, MD, Emil H. Schemitsch, MD, FRCS(C), Robin R. Richards, MD, FRCS(C)

St. Michael's Hospital, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Poster #70

Cytokines in Fracture Non-Union

Theodore A. Blaine, MD, Susan V. Bukata, MD, Paul T. Rubery, MD, Regis J. O'Keefe, MD, David G. Hicks, MD, M. Gordon Whitbeck, MD

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

Poster #88

Effects of Binary Decision Making on the Classification of Fractures of the Ankle

William L. Craig, III, MD, Douglas R. Dirschl, MD

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Poster #94

*Gentamicin and Vancomycin Incorporation into Carbonated Apatite Cement: Effect on Antibiotic Elution and Cement Attributes

Robert D. Poser, DVM, Stuart B. Goodman, MD, PhD, James Nachiondo, David C. Delaney, Duran N. Yetkinler, MD, PhD, Brent R. Constantz, PhD

Norian Corporation, Cupertino, California, USA

Poster #100

Intramedullary Reamer System Design and Performance: Comparison Study and Clinical Implications

David M. Banks, MD, Matthew E. Harrow, BS, Richard D. Peindl, PhD, Michael J. Bosse, MD, James F. Kellam, MD

Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Poster #101

The Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnosing and Managing Non-Unions Complicated by Osteomyelitis

Doreen DiPasquale, MD, James Jelinek, MD, Alessandro Speciale, MD

Arlington, Virginia, USA