Autoinjerto a corta distancia en la seudoartrosis del antebrazo

introduction: the aims of present presentation is to research on the behavior of a group of variables founded in patients operated on due to pseudoarthrosis of he forearm at short-distance to know the type of traumatic lesion previous to pseudoarthrosis and to assess the results from the study cases. methods: a descriptive study was conducted in patients diagnosed with forearm pseudoarthrosis in orthopedics consultation of "dr. enrneto guevara de la serna" hospital and the "dili nationalhospital" (timor lester) during january, 2004 and january, 2008. sample included 38 patients. results: forearm pseudoarthrosis is more frequent in ages between 41 and 50 years old (15 patients) with a predominance of male sex. the more frequent locations were the forearm bones, specially the cubitus (26 patients). it is important to emphasize that in 5 patients the pseudoarthrosis was diagnosed in both bones of forearms. only 5 patients evolved in a torpid way and around the 87% of patients evolved in a satisfactory way. conclusions: the short-distance autograft showed good results in 22 patients (57,9%) demonstrating the usefulness of surgical technique using autogenous graft.