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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 75, Issue 9 1358-1367, Copyright © 1993 by Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

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Mechanical consequences of core drilling and bone-grafting on osteonecrosis of the femoral head

TD Brown, DR Pedersen, KJ Baker and RA Brand
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242-1008.

We employed an anatomically realistic three-dimensional finite-element model to explore several biomechanical variables involved in coring or bone-grafting of a segmentally necrotic femoral head. The mechanical efficacy of several variants of these procedures was indexed in terms of their alteration of the stress:strength ratio in at-risk necrotic cancellous bone. For coring alone, the associated structural compromise was generally modest, provided that the tract did not extend near the subchondral plate. Cortical bone-grafting was potentially of great structural benefit for femoral heads in which the graft penetrated deeply into the superocentral or lateral aspect of the lesion, ideally with abutment against the subchondral plate. By contrast, central or lateral grafts that stopped well short of the subchondral plate were contraindicated biomechanically because they caused marked elevations in stress on the necrotic cancellous bone. Calculated levels of stress were relatively insensitive to variations in the diameter of the graft.
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