Certain cases resulting from severe trauma, or infection or after excision of a tumour are not amenable to the usual reconstructive techniques. In such cases the single-bone concept can be an appropriate manner of approaching this problem. The dominant consideration in the cases presented was a need to reconstruct and salvage forearms that had massive anatomical and functional loss with the smallest number of surgical procedures required to restore the maximum degree of useful function to the forearm and hand.
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