Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head. Surgical Technique Free
This is an enhanced PDF from The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery The PDF of the article you requested follows this cover page. Free Vascularized Fibular Grafting for the Treatment of Postcollapse Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head. Surgical Technique J. Mack Aldridge, III, Keith R. Berend, Eunice E. Gunneson and James R. Urbaniak J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2004;86:87-101. This information is current as of August 9, 2009 Reprints and Permissions Click here to order reprints or request permission to use material from this article, or locate the article citation on jbjs.org and click on the [Reprints and Permissions] link. Publisher Information The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 20 Pickering Street, Needham, MA 02492-3157 www.jbjs.org COPYRIGHT © 2004 BY THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY, INCORPORATED Free Vascularized Fibular Grafting for the Treatment of Postcollapse Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head Surgical Technique By J. Mack Aldridge III, MD, Keith R. Berend, MD, Eunice E. Gunneson, PA-C, and James R. Urbaniak, MD Investigation performed at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina The original scientific article in which the surgical technique was presented was published in JBJS Vol. 85-A, pp. 987-993, June 2003 SURGICAL TECHNIQUE ABSTRACT Overview In its early stages, free vascularized fibular grafting of the femoral BACKGROUND: head required two teams of surgeons and an operative time of six Osteonecrosis of the femoral hours or more. Today, thanks in large part to the development of tech- head, a disease primarily affect- nical shortcuts, customized instrumentation, and an operative sup- ing young adults, is often associ- port staff familiar with the nuances of the surgery, free vascularized ated with collapse of the articular fibular grafting of the femoral head can easily be performed in be- surface and subsequent arthro- tween two and one-half and three hours, with two surgeons and one sis.
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