Conference paper

Surgical treatment of the knee osteoarthritis

Miroslav Hašpl ; Clinic for Orthopedics of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Surgical treatment of initial osteoarthritis consists of palliative arthroscopic operation, joint toilet, arthroscopic lavage, chondrectomy, meniscectomy, sinovyectomy, meniscus toilet, abrasion arthroplasty, microfracture, mosaicplasty, transplantation of autologic chondrocytes. To cure deviation of axis it is proposed corrective osteotomy in pre-osteoarthritis phase. Partial or total arthroplasty is recommended in treatment of advanced knee degenerative process.

Keywords

osteoarthritis; knee; surgical treatment

Hrčak ID:

125919

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/125919

Publication date:

14.10.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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