... CB, Anderson GI, Bertoia JT: A comparison of the effects of skin coverage and muscle flap coverage on the earlystrength of union at the site of osteotomy after devascularization of a segment of ... to the tibia and its surrounding muscle following limited, intramedullary reaming and nail insertion of a segmental tibia fracture in a canine. In addition, by creat-ing a reproducible standardized ... mus-cle and the cortical bone at pre-specified locations,namely, 5.0, 8.5, and 15.0 cm distal to the lateral tibialplateau. The values were then aver aged, as done in pre-vious studies on canines...