[Free bone and skin-bone autoplasty on a vascular pedicle in patients with defects and pseudarthroses].

Radical sequestr- and necrectomy followed by skin, bone or skin-bone autoplasty on the vascular pedicle with microvascular anastomoses between the autotransplant vessels and those of the extremity was successfully fulfilled in 16 patients with defects of tubular bones and false joints complicated by chronic osteomyelitis. The pedicled autografts were taken from the upper flaring portion of the ilium (13), from the fibula (2) and from the external surface of the femur (1). The two-step method of autoplasty is described.