[Risk of infection related to the use of cryopreserved bone grafts from domestic banks].

Abstract

The authors report their experience of a home bone bank of cryopreserved femoral heads on a period of 3 years. They remind the rules to observe for the harvesting, the storage and the utilization of these allografts, and also the indispensable biological tests (at the moment when the article was written). About their series, the authors remind the risks of infection in relation with the utilization of femoral head from bone bank, which justify a great rigour in the organization and the managing of these home bone bank.