Bypass of epiphyseal fragmentation following early Salter innominate osteotomy and its clinical relevance in Legg-Calve-Perthes disease.
Bypass of epiphyseal fragmentation following early Salter innominate osteotomy and its clinical relevance in Legg-Calve-Perthes disease.
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早期 Salter 无名截骨术后骨骺碎片的旁路及其在 Legg-Calve-Perthes 病中的临床相关性。
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10.1097/bpo.0000000000002089
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2022
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Kitoh H
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Mishima K;Kamiya Y;Matsushita M;Imagama S;Kitoh H
Background:It has been demonstrated that early femoral varus osteotomy (FVO) produces a greater probability of skipping or interruption of epiphyseal fragmentation, thereby shortening the length of fragmentation stage for hips in the active stage of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease. This “bypassing phenomenon” is thought to effect less disease severity or outcome, whereas it remains to be elucidated whether this phenomenon is specific to early FVO. We sought to investigate the presence and characteristics of the “bypassing phenomenon” following pelvic osteotomy performed in the avascular necrosis or early fragmentation stage as well as its correlation with disease severity and radiographic outcomes.Methods:A retrospective review of data was conducted for 79 patients with unilateral Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease who had been diagnosed from 1987 to 2015, undergone the Salter innominate osteotomy (SIO) during the stage of avascular necrosis or in the early part of the fragmentation stage between 6.0 and 12.0 years of age, and followed up until skeletal maturity. Epiphyseal fragmentation was classified into 4 patterns according to a previous study. We compared lateral pillar groups and Stulberg grades between patients with and without bypass of the fragmentation stage.Results:The mean age at surgery and follow-up period was 8.1 and 7.9 years, respectively. Sixty hips were in the Waldenström stage I and 19 hips in stage IIa at the surgery. In hips receiving SIO during stage I, the mean duration of the fragmentation stage was 276 days. The fragmentation pattern was typical for 40 hips, abortive for 17 hips, and atypical with horizontal fissure for 3 hips. Patients whose fragmentation was aborted experienced significantly less severe lateral pillar involvement and more favorable Stulberg outcomes at skeletal maturity.Conclusions:Incomplete bypass of epiphyseal fragmentation was observed in 28% of patients following early SIO performed in the avascular necrosis stage. In contrast to FVO, no patient bypassed fragmentation completely. Patients with incomplete bypass had a significantly higher proportion of less severe hips and a significantly greater probability of being associated with favorable radiographic outcomes compared with those without bypass.Level of Evidence:Level IV—therapeutic study.Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) is idiopathic avascular necrosis of the femoral head in growing children that evolves through 4 radiographic stages, namely initial or avascular necrosis, fragmentation, reossification, and healed. 1 Although LCPD has been considered as a self-healing condition, if untreated or neglected, an affected femoral head becomes enlarged and deformed to a varying degree, resulting in a non-spherical incongruent hip joint except ones of some preschool-aged patients. 2 As decreased acetabular coverage and mechanical strength of the affected femoral head rapidly deteriorate during the fragmentation stage of the disease, containment of the hip with a surgical or nonsurgical method should be undertaken by the early fragmentation stage. 3 In addition to age at diagnosis, residual degrees of height at the lateral one-fourth of the epiphysis have been known to be an established prognosticator called the lateral pillar (LP) classification, determined based on the radiographic appearances in the mid-fragmentation stage. 4 From a clinical standpoint, although the choice of an appropriate treatment option should be made based on several discrete predictors, treatment decision making using the LP classification has been limited by concerns about epiphyseal collapse during the waiting period from the initial stage to the mid …