IntroductionIn patients suffering from unilateral osteoarthritis in the knee, an osteotomy can provide symptomatic relief and postpone need for replacement of joint. Nevertheless, open-wedge osteotomies (OWOs) around knee joint face several challenges like postoperative pain bone nonunion.ObjectivesIn this study, aim was to design, fabricate, evaluate a gap-filling implant OWO using osteoinduct...

The purpose of this paper is to advocate simple calcaneal osteotomy as an effective treatment to relieve fatigue, improve shape and prevent abnormal shoe wear in patients with mobile flat foot. It is reserved for those cases in which conservative measures have failed and the symptoms warrant surgical treatment. The concept of calcaneal osteotomy is an old one. The first description was given by...

Transtrochanteric curved varus osteotomy was designed to avoid some of the disadvantages of varus wedge osteotomy, such as post-operative leg-length discrepancy. In this retrospective study we investigated the leg-length discrepancy and clinical outcome after transtrochanteric curved varus osteotomy undertaken in patients with osteonecrosis of the femoral head. Between January 1993 and March 20...

Background: Blount disease is frequently associated with deformities that may not be adequately corrected by a single metaphyseal osteotomy. This study evaluated the outcome of a combined metaphyseal and epiphyseal osteotomy in severe cases. Methods: We prospectively evaluated the outcome of combining the antero-posterior inverted-U metaphyseal osteotomy with a medial open-wedge hemi-epiphyseal...

Moderate to severe hallux valgus deformities associated with a wide first intermetatarsal angle require a first metatarsal osteotomy for adequate correction. A variety of procedures have been introduced such as the crescentic, chevron, scarf, closing or opening wedge osteotomies of the first metatarsal base, and the Ludloff and Mau procedures.7,8,10,15,16,17,24,27 Recently the Ludloff osteotomy...

BACKGROUND Distal femur wedge osteotomies for varus or valgus alignment of the lower extremity could be done in either uniplanar or biplanar fashion.Union time and stability of the osteotomy site has been considered important in this anatomic region. In this study, clinical and radiographic findings of biplane distal femur osteotomy were reported. METHODS Clinical, functional, and radiologica...