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Subchondral Avascular Necrosis: a Common Cause of Arthritis 412 Annals ofthe Rheumatic Diseases 1990; 49: 412-420 REVIEW ARTICLE Ann Rheum Dis: first published as 10.1136/ard.49.6.412 on 1 June 1990. Downloaded from Subchondral avascular necrosis: a common cause of arthritis Peter G Bullough, Edward F DiCarlo Arthritis is the term we use to indicate dysfunc- ised area of bone and bone marrow necrosis tion of a joint, clinically characterised by pain, occurring immediately beneath the articular instability, and loss of motion. Normal function surface, usually in the convex component of a depends on intact joint anatomy and neuro- joint. We have chosen this term, firstly, to muscular control.' Therefore, arthritis may distinguish this condition from necrosis occur- result from any condition which (a) alters the ring in other parts ofthe skeleton and, secondly, configuration of the components of a joint, in because the involved regions, regardless of the particular, the contour of the articulating sur- cause, are without a functional blood supply. faces; (b) affects the mechanical properties of the materials that make up these components- for example, bone, cartilage, and collagenous INCIDENCE AND DEMOGRAPHICS tissue; (c) disturbs the neuromuscular control of Before the 1960s subchondral avascular necrosis the joint. without a history of fracture was considered Necrosis in the subchondral region of a bone unusual,3 and by 1962 only 27 reported cases of is a common cause ofarthritis in our experience, such necrosis could be found by Mankin and though it is regarded as uncommon by others.2 Brower.4 The overall incidence of subchondral With necrosis in the subchondral region, avascular necrosis in any population is difficult arthritis results from the change in the contour to determine because the lesion may be clinically of the articular surface caused by collapse of the silent in a significant proportion of cases. necrotic subchondral bone. Certain groups of people have a predilection for After a short historical discussion of termi- the condition, however. Some of these groups at nology and incidence the morbid anatomy of the risk, who are likely to be encountered in clinical disease will be presented so that the reader may practice, are alcoholics, 8 people taking corti- http://ard.bmj.com/ be better able to interpret the radiological costeroids,5 8 9 black subjects with sickle cell images and understand the clinical presenta- disease,'0 and Jews with Gaucher's disease." tions, both of which will be presented later. A In our laboratory about 18% of the approxi- brief discussion of treatment will then be mately 1000 femoral heads removed each year in presented. total hip replacement procedures for non- traumatic causes show evidence of subchondral avascular necrosis. Approximately 60% of the on September 25, 2021 by guest. Protected copyright. TERMINOLOGY cases are bilateral; the reported incidence of It is generally accepted that death of tissue- bilaterality is estimated to be 75%. 12 The 'necrosis -results from one of four primary incidence in our population is slightly higher types of injury: (a) physical, (b) thermal, (c) among women than among men, about 1-2 to 1. toxic, or (d) circulatory. When necrosis occurs As summarised in the table this distribution is secondary to circulatory disturbances, whether at variance with the male predominance reported because of arterial disease, embolism, or before 1971, and it may be the result of the obstruction of the venous system, the resultant increasing incidence of steroid related cases as region of necrosis is referred to as an 'infarct'. well as the particular case load at our institution. Although circulatory disturbance is assumed to (The Hospital for Special Surgery is exclusively be the principal mechanism of necrosis in the devoted to orthopaedic surgery and rheuma- ends of bones, the cause of the disruption tological diseases.) cannot usually be shown by anatomical dis- The mean age of patients with subchondral of this a number of names avascular necrosis of the hip presenting in our Department ofPathology, section. Because large Cornell University has been given to necrosis occurring in bones. Medical College, Some of these names include segmental sub- and Department of chondral infarction, osteonecrosis, ischaemic Male/female distribution of subchondral avascular necrosis Laboratory Medicine, of the femoral head Hospital for Special necrosis, idiopathic avascular necrosis, aseptic Surgery, New York, USA necrosis, steroid necrosis, and many eponymic Authors Patients M:F Reference P G Bullougli designations (including Perthes' disease, (n) EF DiCarlo Freiberg's disease, Kienbock's disease, etc) Voile 199 4:1 13 Correspondence to: locations and Patterson et al 52 4:1 14 Professor Peter G Bullough, depending on the anatomical Merle d'Aubigne et al 125 4-5:1 15 Hospital for Special Surgery, joints involved. Hastings and MacNab 14 4:3 16 535 East 70th Street, use the term 'sub- McCollum et al 68 4-25:1 17 New York, New York 10021, In this review we will Zinn 48 3-8:1 18 USA. chondral avascular necrosis' to describe a local- Subchondral avascular necrosis 413 hospital is 55 years as compared with the mean the articular surface. In the fourth stage features age of 67 in patients with primary osteoarthritis. of secondary osteoarthritis have developed. It is important to recognise that the morphological features of subchondral avascular necrosis are a Ann Rheum Dis: first published as 10.1136/ard.49.6.412 on 1 June 1990. Downloaded from HISTORY composite of both necrotising and reparative In his lectures on surgical pathology in 1860 processes and that at least some ofthe apparently James Paget clearly described the gross appear- degenerative features-for example, segmental ance of bone necrosis." collapse in stage III, which gives rise to clinical In 1888 the first description of necrosis in a symptoms, may be contributed to by the femoral head associated with Caisson's disease reparative processes. was published by Twynham,20 and in 1911 Bornstein and Plate made a study of 500 construction workers on the Elbe tunnel.2' In STAGE I that paper they described the clinical picture of In this stage the shape of the joint is unaltered decompression disease, and gave detailed and external examination of the joint shows no accounts of three patients with hip pain whose abnormalities. On cut section, however, the radiographs showed the typical picture of sub- necrotic zone, recognised as a somewhat wedge- chondral avascular necrosis of the femoral head. shaped region in which the marrow is dull In 1915 Phemister described the microscopic yellow, chalky, and opaque, may be seen in an findings in necrotic bone, comparing the changes immediately subarticular location (fig 1). This in bone dying as a result of infection ('septic region is usually well demarcated and separated necrosis') with those resulting from a circula- from the surrounding bone marrow by a thin, tory interference ('aseptic necrosis').22 In 1920 red, 'hyperaemic' border. The marrow beyond he related the pathological and radiological this border shows no specific abnormality refer- changes seen in dead bone,23 and then 10 years able to the necrotising process, but may have an later, in a paper read to the American Ortho- abnormal appearance depending on any associ- paedic Association, he discussed the reparative ated or predisposing conditions-for example, processes occurring around dead bone following sickle cell disease with its dark red bone fracture, grafting, and vascular occlusion.24 In marrow, and Gaucher's disease with its pale and this classic paper Phemister coined the term waxy marrow. At this stage changes in the 'creeping substitution' for the process whereby trabecular architecture are not appreciable either the dead bone is finally removed after a layer of by gross inspection or on specimen radiographs, living bone has been deposited onto the pre- which typically show no abnormality. existing dead bone. On microscopic examination the overlying In 1922 Axhausen reported the occurrence of articular cartilage appears viable down to the aseptic necrosis in patients with alcoholism.7 calcified zone. The bony end-plate, however, is The relation between subchondral avascular necrotic. The subchondral bone, corresponding necrosis and alcoholism was later to be developed to the opaque yellow region seen grossly, is by Jones et al in 1968.8 characterised by necrotic bone and bone mar- http://ard.bmj.com/ The relation ofsubchondral avascular necrosis row. The marrow elements are replaced by to steroids was first noted by Pietrogrande and granular, eosinophilic material lacking cellular Mastromarino in 1957.25 Confirmation of this elements except for the occasional ghosts of was made by Mandel and Freeman, who in 1964 disrupted fat cells (fig 2). There may also be reported a case of aseptic necrosis of the femoral cysts of lipid material which, with calcification, head in a patient with Cushing's disease.26 may appear as saponified fat ('soap'). In the Increasing renal transplantation and postopera- bone the osteocytic lacunae may be empty, on September 25, 2021 by guest. Protected copyright. tive steroid treatment provided Creuss et al with contain cellular debris, or have a pale-staining further clinical evidence of the association nucleus. At the margin of the infarct there is between this disease and steroid treatment.27 In 1965 Catto published two excellent papers giving details of the destructive and reparative changes in'subchondral avascular necrosis of the femoral head.28 29In these papers she considered the changes occurring in the femoral head after subcapital fractures of the neck of the femur, and dealt with the pathological processes in detail. Morbid anatomy Four stages in the development of subchondral avascular necrosis have been defined morpho- logically and these may be shown to correlate with observed radiographic appearances.3133 The first stage is characterised predominantly by the presence of necrosis of both bone and bone marrow without evidence of repair.
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