The controversy regarding the efficacy of core decompression as a treatment for osteonecrosis of the femoral head began with initial reports by Ficat (I), Ficat and Arlet (2), and Hungerford (3,4). These authors reported several series of patients for whom the coring procedure was the preferred ther
Incidence of nontraumatic osteonecrosis of the femoral head in the Japanese population
โ Scribed by Ryosuke Yamaguchi; Takuaki Yamamoto; Goro Motomura; Satoshi Ikemura; Yukihide Iwamoto
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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