Osteonecrosis of the femoral head is a devastating disease that results in hip necrosis from impaired blood flow. Over their lifetime, patients will most likely require multiple surgeries; thus, when ...

Core decompression surgery is a newer surgical procedure compared with standard total hip replacement, and it has shown promising results. 11 Unfortunately, the disadvantage of this procedure is that ...

In certain cases of navicular disease, drilling a hole into the navicular bone--a procedure called core decompression that's commonly used to treat human osteonecrosis (bone death caused by poor blood ...

What is the most effective treatment for the early stages of osteonecrosis of the femoral head? We assessed multiple drilling and stem cell implantation to treat the early stages of osteonecrosis of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients in the pre-collapse stages of post-traumatic osteonecrosis of the femoral head may receive safe and ...

Osteonecrosis is a frequent complication after treatment for childhood leukemia and other steroid-based therapies. The success rate of core decompression surgery is limited. Therefore, we evaluated ...

A 58-year-old man weighing 125 kilograms and battling severe right hip pain for over three years due to a condition known as Avascular Necrosis has successfully undergone a complex Total Hip ...