HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Personal Folders Download to citation manager Author home page(s): Anthony Morgan Permission Requests Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Morgan, A. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Morgan, A. Related Collections Chest wall

---

How To Do It

Treatment of Chronic Nonunion of a Sternal Fracture With Bone Morphogenetic Protein

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, United Kingdom

Accepted for publication November 5, 2007.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Morgan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Marlborough St, Bristol, BS2 8HW, United Kingdom (Email: anthony.morgan{at}ubht.nhs.uk).

Chronic nonunion of sternal fractures, up until now, has been treated by osteosynthetic plating with or without autologous bone grafting. A new technique is described involving the use of bone morphogenic protein to stimulate bone growth at the fracture site, thereby eliminating the need for bone grafting.

This article has been cited by other articles:

				I E Konstantinov, P Saxena, and D J Wood Stabilisation of chronic flail chest: a novel approach of surgical fixation and osteogenesis Thorax, March 1, 2009; 64(3): 265 - 266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]