Abstract
We reviewed 48 hips in 43 patients 3–7.1 years (average 4.6 years) after Sugioka transtrochanteric rotational osteotomy for osteonecrosis of the femoral head. The average age at operation was 41 years. Thirty-four patients were men and 9 women. Overall results at the final follow-up were satisfactory in 30 hips (62%). Kaplan-Meier's survivorship was 62% at 3 years and 60% at 5 years postoperatively. Six hips for which the ratio of the intact area of the articular surface on the preoperative lateral radiograph was less than 30% showed further collapse. Five hips were converted to bipolar hemiarthroplasties or total hip arthroplasties. Complications, such as varus deformity, subtrochanteric fracture, and ectopic bone formation, occurred in eight hips. Five of them were operated on in the first 2 years of this series. Three of these five operations had unsatisfactory results. We conclude that satisfactory results can be achieved using this osteotomy by maintaining exact surgical technique and by limiting the surgical indications to hips with an intact area of more than one-third of the entire articular surface on the lateral radiograph of the femoral head.
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Iwasada, S., Hasegawa, Y., Iwase, T. et al. Transtrochanteric rotational osteotomy for osteonecrosis of the femoral head. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 116, 447–453 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00387576
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