menisci due to senescence, trauma or surgery eventually leads to osteoarthritis of the knee joint, independent of meniscus morphology. 10 - 16 Fig. 1. Arthroscopic view illustrating meniscal vascularity. Note the bleeding from the peripheral part
Mahmut Nedim Doral, Onur Bilge, Gazi Huri, Egemen Turhan, and René Verdonk
E Carlos Rodríguez-Merchán
Danish Knee Arthroplasty Registry ( 16 ). They used the aforementioned Registry to construct models to foresee the probability of revision TKA within 2 years of primary TKA. Age, post-fracture osteoarthritis, and weight were considered important
Ioannis Gkiatas, Anastasia Boptsi, Dimitra Tserga, Ioannis Gelalis, Dimitrios Kosmas, and Emilios Pakos
abnormalities of the hip joint and is characterized by mild or incomplete formation of the acetabulum, leading to laxity of the joint capsule, secondary deformity of the proximal femur and irreducible hip dislocation. 3 The leading cause of osteoarthritis
Alessio Bernasconi, François Lintz, and Francesco Sadile
addressed in terms of mechanisms, minimum time before implant removal, and superiority compared with other surgical solutions and between implants. Additionally, some concerns about long-term results and complications (osteoarthritis) are crucial in a
Rui Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang, Jia Xu, Qinglin Kang, and Reggie C Hamdy
eventually develop osteoarthritis ( 1 , 3 , 4 , 8 , 60 ). Normally, the annular ligament ensures the stability of the radiocapitellar joint by surrounding the radial head. This ligament may get torn or entrapped by the dislocation of the radial head due
Stig Storgaard Jakobsen, Søren Overgaard, Kjeld Søballe, Ole Ovesen, Bjarne Mygind-Klavsen, Christian Andreas Dippmann, Michael Ulrich Jensen, Jens Stürup, and Jens Retpen
Background The interest in treating hip pathologies, such as developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH), femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and labral tears in patients without radiographic signs of osteoarthritis (OA), has rapidly increased
Patrick Goetti, Patrick J. Denard, Philippe Collin, Mohamed Ibrahim, Adrien Mazzolari, and Alexandre Lädermann
carrying angle. Glenohumeral offset Osteoarthritis results in loss of glenohumeral offset secondary to humeral and glenoid bone wear. While glenohumeral offset is subject to inter-person variability, a diminished glenohumeral offset implies
Michael Millrose, Markus Gesslein, Till Ittermann, Simon Kim, Hans-Christoph Vonderlind, and Mike Ruettermann
Introduction Osteoarthritis of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint, either primary or secondary, limits the range of motion and causes pain with or without instability, leading to significant global hand function impairment ( 1 ). Typical
E. Carlos Rodríguez-Merchán and Primitivo Gómez-Cardero
Introduction Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of lower-limb OA. 1 It is estimated that 6% of those aged 30 years and older and 15% of those aged 45 years and older experience the condition, 2 with a lifetime risk of
Thomas Tampere, Matthieu Ollivier, Christophe Jacquet, Maxime Fabre-Aubrespy, and Sébastien Parratte
primary arthroplasty for complex fractures around the knee ( Table 1 ). The first and best indications are intra-articular fractures in elderly osteoporotic patients with pre-existing symptomatic end-stage osteoarthritis. Secondly, arthroplasty might be
