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A Different from of Sternal Reconstruction: A Case Study

Halil Tozum, Mustafa Akyil, Tahir Sevval Eren, Murat Demiroglu, Bulent Kilic

Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · pp. 1–6 · Published 29 Jul 2016

10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27458

Abstract

Currently, almost all sternum defects, with or without tissue loss, can be repaired through various kinds of surgical procedures and grafts. A patient diagnosed with multiple myeloma one and a half years earlier experienced during therapy a pathological fracture of the sternum that healed with a “staircase” like complication. Reconstruction of the sternum using the "nitinol plaque" was performed on the patient, who came to have the deformity corrected. We present our first case of reconstruction using a new material, which had a successful outcome.

Chest wall reconstruction sternum multiple myeloma nitinol plate.

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