PHILADELPHIA — Few studies have examined bone graft harvest site complications, but a new prospective study has now identified a relatively high rate of persistent pain and morbidity after iliac crest ...

Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is a disorder defined by the aseptic ischemic necrosis of osseous tissue in the ...

Injury to the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (Bernhardt's syndrome) or meralgia paresthetica occurs after harvest of the bone from the anterior iliac crest. The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is a ...

A localized autograft is reusing the bone which was removed from the disc space during the discectomy procedure (CPT 20936), whereas, using bone harvested from another area where a separate incision ...

Autogenous bone grafting is often done in orthopaedic surgery for a variety of conditions. The iliac crest is currently the most common donor site for obtaining autogenous bone graft. We searched the ...