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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 77, Issue 5 674-680, Copyright © 1995 by Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

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Core decompression of the osteonecrotic femoral head

SW Smith, TK Fehring, WL Griffin and WB Beaver
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina 28232, USA.

The results in 114 hips of ninety-two patients who had osteonecrosis of the femoral head were assessed after treatment with core decompression. The average duration of follow-up was three years and four months (range, two years to six years and six months). The average age of the patients was forty-one years (range, fifteen to sixty-seven years). The presumed risk factors were the use of corticosteroids (thirty-seven hips), excessive use of alcohol (thirty-two hips), trauma (seven hips), and various other factors (seven hips). No specific risk factor was identified for thirty-one hips, and the osteonecrosis was considered to be idiopathic. The preoperative evaluation consisted of clinical assessment, magnetic resonance imaging, and radiographic staging according to a modification of the system of Ficat. Thirty-two hips were in stage I; thirty-eight, in stage IIA; twenty-five, in stage IIB (transition stage, with a crescent sign); and nineteen, in stage III. Clinical failure was defined as the performance of a subsequent operation. Over-all, sixty-four hips (56 percent) failed clinically. Fifty-seven were treated with a hip replacement; four, with a femoral osteotomy; and three, with a vascularized fibular graft. Clinical failure was seen in five (16 percent) of the thirty-two hips in stage I, twenty (53 percent) of the thirty-eight hips in stage IIA, twenty (80 percent) of the twenty-five hips in stage IIB, and in all nineteen of the hips in stage III.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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