الفهرس 
Demineralized bone matrix for treatment of long bones non union
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Abstract
The treatment of posttraumatic skeletal conditions such as delayed union, nonunion, malunion, and other problems of bone loss are challenging. In most cases, restoration of alignment and stable fixation of the bone is all that is necessary to achieve a successful reconstruction. However, in many cases, adjunctive measures such as bone-grafting or bone transport is required to stimulate bone-healing and fill bone defects. The use of iliac crest autologous bone graft is widely considered as gold standard for a number of reasons, including osteogenic, osteoconductive, and osteoinductive properties and the lack of disease transmission or of immunogenicity. But the use of autograft may be at risk of major drawbacks, such as limited availability and variable quality of the graft, hematoma, infection, increased operative time and bleeding, chronic donor site pain. In this study we proved that using demineralized bone matrix in treatment long bone nonunion can be good alternative for iliac bone graft especially in selected cases. Still there’s alot of limitation for using DBM here in Egypt due to lack of availability and increased its cost