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Bone Healing in Hand Transplantation

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Hand Transplantation

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Various bone disorders can affect the ability of bone cells to structure organic and inorganic components. Avascularity can cause osteonecrosis, with death of haematopoietic cells, lipocytes and endothelial cells. Repair of osteonecrosis is the time needed for the process to replace necrotic bone. Callous fracture healing is a regenerative process consisting of three stages of inflammation: development of soft callus, of hard callus and remodelling [1, 2]. During inflammation, new blood vessels are induced, enhancing angiogenesis, which can be investigated by Doppler ultrasound. Following inflammation, fibrous and cartilaginous tissue known as soft callus develops, which can be observed by grey-scale ultrasound. In the hard callus stage, cartilaginous tissue converts to woven bone, which will finally be remodelled to lamellar bone.

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  1. Department of Traumatology, Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

    Markus Gabl, Sigurd Pechlaner, Martin Lutz, Rohit Arora & Michael Blauth

  2. Department of Radiology, The Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Rieger

  3. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Unit, The Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

    Marina Ninkovic

  4. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

    Hildegunde Piza

  5. Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

    Stefan Schneeberger

  6. Department of Transplant Surgery, The Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

    Raimund Margreiter

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  1. Italian Institute of Hand Surgery, Monza,Milan, Italy

    Marco Lanzetta (Director, Adjunct Professor and President) (Director, Adjunct Professor and President)

  2. University of Canberra, Australia

    Marco Lanzetta (Director, Adjunct Professor and President) (Director, Adjunct Professor and President)

  3. International Hand and Composite, Tissue Allograft Society, Australia

    Marco Lanzetta (Director, Adjunct Professor and President) (Director, Adjunct Professor and President)

  4. Department of Transplantation, Édouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France

    Jean-Michel Dubernard  & Palmina Petruzzo  & 

  5. Department of Surgery, University of Cagliari, Italy

    Palmina Petruzzo

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Gabl, M. et al. (2007). Bone Healing in Hand Transplantation. In: Lanzetta, M., Dubernard, JM., Petruzzo, P. (eds) Hand Transplantation. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0374-3_35

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