Repair of Large Bone Defects with the Use of Autologous Bone Marrow Stromal Cells

Abstract
The reconstruction of large bone segments is an important clinical problem, and none of the approaches proposed thus far have proved very effective. In animals, repair and functional recovery of segmental bone defects have been reported with the use of marrow-derived osteoprogenitor cells grown on scaffolds of macroporous hydroxyapatite.1-3