From: A systematic review of the single-stage treatment of chronic osteomyelitis
Dead space management | Patients | Non-recurrence (%) | |
Biologic | Muscle flap | 61 | 95.1 |
Bone allograft | 26 | 92.3 | |
Total | 87 | 94.2 | |
Non-biologic | Abx-loaded Ca-HA | 117 | 95.7 |
Abx-loaded Ca-Sulph | 153 | 88.2 | |
Bioactive glass | 24 | 87.5 | |
Abx-loaded Ca-phos | 20 | 86.4 | |
Abx-loaded PMMA | 29 | 79.3 | |
Total | 343 | 89.8 | |
Bone | No recurrence | Recurrence | Recurrence (%) |
Tibia | 290 | 15 | 4.9 |
Femur | 195 | 13 | 6.3 |
Humerus | 42 | 3 | 6.7 |
Other | 23 | 2 | 8.0 |