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-inflammatory medication, and long-term activity modification. 1 Literature describes many different surgical procedures for elbow OA, both arthroscopic and open, including arthroscopic debridement with or without radial head resection, 4 – 20 open debridement
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of choice would be a total knee arthroplasty; however, this involves removing healthy joint surfaces. Arthroscopic debridement in the osteoarthritic knee has fallen out of favour due to poor clinical results. 1 Recently, a trend has developed
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arthroscopic treatment. The minimum follow-up was one year; the average KSS knee score improved from 63.8 to 90.9, whereas the average KSS function score improved from 65.4 to 90.4. There was no recurrence. Arthroscopic debridement for soft-tissue impingement
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successfully treated in the short term with arthroscopic debridement alone, whereas grade 3 tears (> 6 mm depth) should be repaired. 1 , 2 However, PBRCTs should be approached more aggressively, with debridement for grade 1 tears only and with repair for
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Arthroscopic debridement and irrigation are not recommended as there the outcome is worse when compared with open surgical revision. 64 , 65 Its limitations are inability to perform adequate debridement and exchange of the mobile parts of the prosthesis
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% potentially requiring a subtalar fusion. 8 , 11 In Hawkins type II fractures, an arthroscopic assessment is recommended and, depending on the chondral damage and size of the comminuted fragments, arthroscopic debridement is considered the most suitable
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four to six weeks after trauma with suture repair or re-insertion and pinning. Partial injuries are not best treated by open surgery. Instead, the treatment options are arthroscopic debridement or thermal shrinkage, pinning or physiotherapy with the re
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osteochondral defects of the talus after arthroscopic debridement and microfracture . Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 2016 24 1286 – 1292 . ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-015-3928-6 ) 10.1007/s00167-015-3928-6 26713327 20. Schuh A Salminen
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. 2 The treatment for ankle arthritis varies according to the cause and severity of the cartilage degeneration. For example, arthroscopic debridement, spur excision or ligament reconstruction have been attempted for early-stage degenerative
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treated by means of arthroscopic debridement. Figure 3 shows a case of chronic ankle instability arthroscopically treated. Figure 1 Arthroscopic excision of a bony spur in the anterior distal tibia that caused painful anterior bony impingement of
