Part I. Possibility of tuberculous infection by the transplantation of the rib obtained from the patient who underwent thoracoplastic operation.
The auther intended to utilize the ribs obtained after thoracoplastic operations for the homogenous bone grafting. To investigate the possibility of tuberculous infection, the ribs obtained from 32 patients (pulmonary tuberculosis) were bacteriologically studied. Each piece of the ribs (bone, bone marrow, periosteum) was splitted up, mixed in 4% H2SO4 solution and centrifuged. The sediment was cultivated for 3-7 weeks, placed on the Oka-Katakura's nutrient medium. The results were negative.
Part II. Vital powers of the ribs preserved in Ringer's solution and sera of various blood types.
To investigate the vital powers of the bone grafts, the pieces of the ribs obtained from the patients were preserved in Ringer's solution and in sera of various blood types (A, B, AB, O) under the condition of 2-5°C for 1-7 weeks. At the proper intervals, a part of the rib pieces preserved were cut off and histological investigated.
The number of living cells of the bone was taken up as the indicator of vitality. Each bone preserved in Ringer's solution and sera showed no intensive changes in vital powter till a week, and then gradually decrease of the vitality of cells was found. But 7 weeks after, living cells were still seen in small number. However the bone preserved in Ringer's solution showed a little better vital power than that in sera, but after 7 weeks it became contrary. Among the bones preserved in the sera of various blood types, the bone preserved in the sera of the same blood type showed the best vital power and the others showed a more degenerative feature without marked differences.
Part III. Homogenous bone grafting in oral surgery (Bone grafting by means of the chips of homogenous ribs preserved)
1) Of 21 cases in which the homogenous bone grafting was performed after apicoectomy or exstirpation of cysts of jaw, there have been 20 successful cases.
2) The bone grafting in this form accelerated the wound healing after the operations (apicoectomy, cyst operation) about 2-3 months.
3) The infection of tuberculosis by bone grafts was not found, though the bones were obtained from the patients who underwent thoracoplastic operations.
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