Effect of Osteotomy on Pain in Idiopathic Osteoarthritis of the Hip

Intraosseous Pressure in the Femoral Head and Greater Trochanter Before and 1-3 Years After Osteotomy for Osteoarthritis of the Hip Joint

“…After a considerable period of time the fall in pressure is possibly again replaced with an increase, and this agrees with the most recent reports on a decreasing subjective effect of osteotomy after a long observation period (Appel & Friberg 1973).…”

Osteotomy around the knee: evolution, principles and results

“…Although many surgeons continued to rely on plaster casting alone to maintain correction [6, 44, 49, 52], up until the late 1980s, the most popular technique for fixation of the osteotomy was staples, usually augmented with casting or using Charnley’s compression device [70]. Hardware failure was a considerable burden: staples frequently loosened because they sometimes did not fully engage into the distal tibia and this was addressed by the introduction of the stepped staple in 1969 [21] (Fig.…”

“…As early as 1969 Werner Muller et al, from Basle, Switzerland, used AO T-plates as their method of choice, and although they reported a high rate of insufficient correction and some cases of metalwork fatigue and fixation failure Reproduced with permission and copyright Ó of the British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery [48] during their early experience (which initially included different fixation methods), overall 83 % of patients had a good or excellent outcome after 1-6 years (mean 2.1 years) [71]. The potential for an earlier stable range of movement was realised; however, the longer-term benefits of these fixation systems were not appreciated from initial series as they also contained other inferior fixation methods, and sub-group analysis was seldom performed [6]. The first group to report exclusively on distal femoral osteotomies performed with a 90-degree AO distal femoral blade plate produced good or excellent outcomes in 93 % of procedures [39].…”