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Application of allogenous sternal bone graft and its fixing using titanium plates.
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To close the wound, allogenous sternal bone graft was used and fixed using AO osteosynthesis titanium plates (Fig. 1.).
(A) Planar anterior whole-body (left) and SPECT (right) images 2 months after graft implantation. Central photon-deficient area with surrounding tracer uptake. (B) Check examination 21 months after graft implantation-improvement of tracer uptake (full in manubrium sterni, partially in corpus sterni). (C) Quantitatively 21 months after. A photon-deficient area measured as a region of interest (ROI) reduced to 58%.
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Planar anterior whole-body (left view in Fig. 2A,B,C) and SPECT (right view in Fig. 2A,B,C) images performed 3 months after graft implantation, showed a central photon-deficient area with surrounding tracer uptake (Fig. 2A). Images obtained 21 months after surgery showed improvement of tracer uptake to the full within the sternal manubrium, and partial uptake in the sternal corpus (Fig. 2B). Quantitatively, a photon-deficient area measured as a region of interest (ROI) reduced to 58% - from 1440 mm2 to 835 mm2 (Fig. 2C).