Electrical stimulation of artificial ossification of a muscle flap during plastic repair of a bone defect

Experiments on rabbits showed that during plastic repair of a bone defect in the tibia by means of a muscle flap on a central vascular pedicle and electrical stimulation by a direct current of 18–20 A with change of polarity reorganization of the muscle flap was accelerated and bone tissue formed in its substance. Electrical stimulation of osteogenesis after muscle grafting promotes restoration of anatomic integrity of the bone.Department of Military Traumatology and Orthopedics, S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Leningrad. (Presented by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR I. S. Kolesnikov.) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 356–359, March, 1978.