ArticleJournal of orthopaedics
Knee osteochondritis dissecans-treatment technical aspects.
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- Autologous chondrocyte implantation in the knee is effective in skeletally immature patients: a systematic review.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Pooled it
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- A Screw Length of 14 mm Is Sufficient to Avoid the Physis During Juvenile Osteochondritis Dissecans Lesion Repair but This Can Vary Based on Age and Region of the Distal Femur.Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Return to Activity After Patellofemoral Osteochondral Fracture: A Comparison of Metallic Screw and Bioabsorbable Fixation.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2024Article
- [Treatment of osteochondritis dissecans].Orthopadie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Determinants of joint effusion in tarsocrural osteochondrosis of yearling Standardbred horses.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Purpose and objective: Current treatments of different stages of knee osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) are depending on the age of the patients and the stability of the diseased osteochondral area. The purpose of this paper was to summarize the treatment alternatives in order to simplify the choice for the treating surgeon. Background and principle results: Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) of the knee is an idiopathic and local osteochondral abnormality that affects mainly children and adolescents with risk of loosening of osteochondral fragments. A good clinical result can be expected when the physes are still open, when the osteochondritis is small and when the osteochondritis can be assessed as stable by MRI. Unstable OCD lesions most often need to be treated operatively by different fixation methods and when the osteochondral cannot be refixated, different local chondral and osteochondral repairs are available to fill up the defect area to congruity. Summary and major conclusions: The final choice of which treatment to use is depending on fragment viability and forms. Viable fragments are refixated while poor quality fragments are removed followed by a local biological osteochondral repair. Such osteochondral resurfacing may be single bone marrow stimulation with or without scaffold augmentation or different cell seeded grafts.
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