Erschienen in:
22.06.2017 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Free Vascularized Fibular Grafting Improves Vascularity Compared With Core Decompression in Femoral Head Osteonecrosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial
verfasst von:
Anton Plakseychuk, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 9/2017
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Excerpt
For many years, core decompression was generally considered a mainstay of treatment for avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head [
4,
5]. But more than 20 years ago, multiple studies [
7,
17] demonstrated that this procedure has a limited success rate and is probably best used in patients with small, early AVN lesions. At the same time, free vascularized fibula graft, a complex and labor intensive procedure that requires microsurgical anastamosis of the vessels [
18,
19], saw wider use. Because of the complexity of free vascularized fibula graft surgery, and in order to perform it efficiently, the procedure is often done using two teams of surgeons working simultaneously, an impractical proposition for community hospitals. For that reason, most of them continue to perform core decompression today [
14,
16]. …