Table III.
Secondary outcomes: complications
| Reconstruction procedure | Elbows, n | Complications, n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LABCN | PIN palsy | SRN | Flexion contracture | HO | Wound dehiscence | HS morbidity | Graft failure | Total | ||
| Autograft (weave) | 70 | 4 (5.7) | — | 4 (5.7) | — | 3 (4.3) | 1 (1.4) | 14 (20) | 2 (2.9) | 28 (40) |
| Autograft (onlay) | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 (6.3) | — | 1 (6.3) |
| Allograft (weave) | 28 | 2 (7.1) | — | — | 2 (7.1) | 1 (3.6) | — | — | — | 5 (17.9) |
| Allograft (onlay) | 29 | 1 (3.4) | 2 (6.9) | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 (10.3) |
| Total | 143 | 7 (4.9) | 2 (1.4) | 4 (2.8) | 2 (1.4) | 4 (2.8) | 1 (0.7) | 15 (10.5) | 2 (1.4) | 37 (25.9) |
LABCN, lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve (sensory neuritis or numbness); PIN, posterior interosseous nerve; SRN, superficial radial nerve (sensory neuritis or numbness); HO, heterotopic ossification; HS, harvest site.