Arthroscopic Bone Grafting and Robot-assisted Fixation for Scaphoid Nonunion.

Journal: Orthopaedic surgery
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Scaphoid nonunion remains a challenging problem to manage with no general consensus on its treatment recommendations. We propose a novel minimally invasive (MIS) technique of arthroscopic bone grafting (ABG) with robot-assisted fixation for the treatment of scaphoid nonunions.

Authors

  • Zhe Yi
    Department of Hand Surgery, Beijing JiShuiTan Hospital, The Fourth Clinical College of Peking University, Beijing, China.
  • Rebecca Qian Ru Lim
    Department of Hand & Reconstructive Microsurgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
  • Wei Chen
    Department of Urology, Zigong Fourth People's Hospital, Sichuan, China.
  • Jin Zhu
    Department of Laboratory, Quzhou People's Hospital, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China, qzhosp@163.com.
  • Shanlin Chen
    Department of Hand Surgery, Beijing JiShuiTan Hospital, The Fourth Clinical College of Peking University, Beijing, China.
  • Bo Liu
    Wuhan United Imaging Healthcare Surgical Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan, China.