Polychrome Bone Fluorescence: A Valuable Diagnostic Tool for Fourth-Degree Calvarial Burns. A Case Report
Annemarie Martha Malan,
Markus Öhlbauer,
Rolf-Dieter Bader
et al.
Abstract:4th degree calvarial burns are complex in management with regards to determining bone vitality and subsequent choice of defect coverage. Distinguishing viable and nonviable bone can be challenging. Tetracycline bone fluorescence is well described and in common use in maxillofacial patients with bisphosphonate osteonecrosis and has been reported in septic orthopedic surgery specifically periprosthetic joint infection. On the basis that viable bone fluoresces, the concept of polychrome fluorescence was extrapola… Show more
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