, stiffness, pain, oversizing or overlengthening, dissociation of the prosthesis, erosions of the capitellum and progressive symptomatic osteoarthritis of the ulnohumeral joint. 8 Since this embodies a broad range of complications, with variable (and
Izaäk F. Kodde, Jetske Viveen, Bertram The, Roger P. van Riet, and Denise Eygendaal
Khaled M. Sarraf, Ravi Popat, Kathryn L. Kneale, Rajarshi Bhattacharya, Manoj Ramachandran, Pramod Achan, and Sammy A. Hanna
). 7 – 11 Boyle et al 12 did not record pre-operative scores, but used the Oxford Hip Score six months post-operatively, and found the mean in the SCFE group was 42.4 and the mean in the osteoarthritis (OA) group was 40.8. Complications
Philippe Beaufils, Roland Becker, Sebastian Kopf, Ollivier Matthieu, and Nicolas Pujol
with the lateral meniscus (around 20%). In traumatic tears, mensicus preservation is the first-line choice. The reason for preserving the meniscus is, of course, the risk of secondary osteoarthritis after APM. In stable knees, subjective results are
E. Carlos Rodríguez-Merchán
Introduction Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has proven to be a successful, safe and cost-effective treatment in the management of advanced osteoarthritis. The incidence of TKA has increased steadily in the last decade and is expected to
Bülent Atilla
Introduction Patients with untreated developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) may eventually develop secondary osteoarthritis, beginning in early adulthood. Arthroplasty is the main treatment of choice. In some countries, DDH is the main cause
Maurilio Marcacci, Luca Andriolo, Elizaveta Kon, Nogah Shabshin, and Giuseppe Filardo
pathologies including traumatic contusion and fractures, post-cartilage surgery imaging alterations, osteoarthritis (OA), transient BML syndromes, spontaneous insufficiency fractures (SIFK) and true osteonecrosis (ON). These pathologic patterns present
Roberto Padua, Laura de Girolamo, Alberto Grassi, and Davide Cucchi
Functional Index Shoulder ULFI 23 Walch-Duplay Score – 24 Western Ontario Osteoarthritis of the Shoulder WOOS 25 ✓ Western Ontario Rotator Cuff Index WORC 26 ✓ Western Ontario Shoulder
Cécile Batailler and Philippe Neyret
Introduction Recurrent patellar instability is a disabling condition that can lead to articular cartilage injuries, osteochondral fractures, pain, decreased activity and patellofemoral osteoarthritis (OA). The average annual incidence of
Tahir Ögüt and N. Selcuk Yontar
technique increasingly used for the treatment of hindfoot pathologies. 1 Posterior ankle impingement syndrome, flexor hallucis longus (FHL) tendon problems, osteochondral lesions, subtalar coalitions, osteoarthritis, talar bone cysts, talar fractures
Markus S. Hanke, Florian Schmaranzer, Simon D. Steppacher, Till D. Lerch, and Klaus A. Siebenrock
. 27 Evidence for a threshold of > 60° is mounting due to previously published data, showing that an alpha angle exceeding 60° is associated with clinical symptoms and the development of incident osteoarthritis. 28 , 29 During flexion, internal
