Technique using bone wax to aid in fashioning grafts for osteochondral allografting of bony defects of humeral head

J Surg Orthop Adv. 2014 Spring;23(1):49-51. doi: 10.3113/jsoa.2014.0049.

Abstract

Visualization of the three-dimensional nature of a Hill-Sachs lesion during osteoarticular allografting via an anterior approach is challenging and makes fashioning of an appropriately sized shape-matched graft difficult. A technique using bone wax to aid in templating the size and shape of the Hill-Sachs lesion for grafting is described.

MeSH terms

  • Bone Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Humeral Head / surgery*
  • Palmitates*
  • Transplantation, Homologous
  • Waxes*

Substances

  • Palmitates
  • Waxes
  • bone wax