"A Clinical Comparative Study of Autogenous and Homogenous-Bone Graft" by Jack Dean Spankus
 

Date of Award

5-1960

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Medical

First Advisor

Peter Carnesale

Second Advisor

Walter Blount

Third Advisor

Walter Zeit

Abstract

The original intent of this study was to determine the clinical success of merthiolate-preserved homogenous bone at the Veterans Administration Center, Wood, Wisconsin. It was prepared for presentation at the Mid-West Orthopaedic Club, November 1957. I then became interested in reviewing the autogenous-bone grafts and comparing the results with the homogenous-bone grafts. I reported these findings at the Eleventh Annual Clinical Day Conference, June 1958, at the Veterans Administration Center.

Upon completion of this study, I discovered only three limited clinical series had previously been reported that compared the homogenous-bone grafts and the autogenousbone grafts, although, extensive investigations had been made evaluating autogenous and homogenous grafts in experimental animals. Reports have been made by investigators at different institutions on the results of either autogenous or homogenous-bone-grafting, but comparing the results of one group with those of another is unreliable because of the many variables. The procedures in this study were done at the same hospital under the direction of the same supervising orthopaedic staff. This study compares the type of graft and the conditions for which the bone graft was used.

Three hundred fourteen procedures from January 1948 to January 1958 were reviewed.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Surgery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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