Surgery for FWI avascular necrosis of the femoral head « West Indies Operative Orthopaedics

Surgery for FWI avascular necrosis of the femoral head

Numerous treatment modalities are available for avascular necrosis of the femoral head.

There seems to be no relevant animal model for the study of the human form of this disease.

Also, numerous are the etiologies for this disease.

Results of treatment are often based on small patient series with different stages of the disease various etiologies and different techniques.

One of the (many) purposes of this blog is to provide a current FWI perspective of the various treatment modalities for avascular necrosis based on a comprehensive analysis of the literature and the author’s experience.

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This entry was posted on May 30, 2009 at 3:46 pm and is filed under Arthritis, Business of Orthopaedics, Hip, Infection, Oncology, Trauma. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

Tags: French West Indies, Health, Hip, Necrosis, Osteonecrosis, Surgery, Treatment

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