Top

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Published in:

01-11-2009 | Letter to the Editor

Osteonecrosis of femoral head and hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Authors: Günalp Uzun, Mesut Mutluoğlu, Yavuz Özdemir

Published in: Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery | Issue 11/2009

Excerpt

To the Editor, …

European Committee for Hyperbaric Medicine (2004) 7th European Consensus Conference on Hyperbaric Medicine. http://www.echm.org/ECHM-Conferences.htm. Accessed 11 July 2009

Feldmeier JJ (2003) Hyperbaric Oxygen 2003: indications and results: the hyperbaric oxygen committee report. Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Kensington, MD

Gardeniers JWM (1993) ARCO (Association Research Circulation Osseous) international classification of osteonecrosis. ARCO Committee on Terminology and Staging. Report on the committee meeting at Santiago de Compostella. ARCO Newsl 5:79–82

Hsu SL, Wang CJ, Lee MS, Chan YS, Huang CC, Yang KD (2009) Cocktail therapy for femoral head necrosis of the hip. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. doi:10.1007/s00402-009-0918-5

Reis ND, Schwartz O, Militianu D, Ramon Y, Levin D, Norman D, Melamed Y, Shupak A, Goldsher D, Zinman C (2003) Hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a treatment for stage-I avascular necrosis of the femoral head. J Bone Joint Surg Br 85:371–375PubMedCrossRef

Steinberg ME, Hayken GD, Steinberg DR (1995) A quantitative system for staging avascularnecrosis. J Bone Joint Surg Br 77:34–41PubMed

Strauss M, Dvorak T (2002) Femoral head necrosis and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. In: Kindwall EP, Whelan HT (eds) Hyperbaric medicine practice, 2nd revised edn. Best Publishing Co, AZ, pp 909–927

Title: Osteonecrosis of femoral head and hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Authors: Günalp Uzun
Mesut Mutluoğlu
Yavuz Özdemir
Publication date: 01-11-2009
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery / Issue 11/2009
Print ISSN: 0936-8051
Electronic ISSN: 1434-3916
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-009-0966-x

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

Osteonecrosis of femoral head and hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Excerpt

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

Excerpt

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Issue 11/2009

Can ‘sniff nasal inspiratory pressure’ determine severity of scoliosis in paediatric population?

The functional outcome of the fractured clavicle

Our clinical experience on calcaneal bone cysts: 36 cysts in 33 patients

Expression of matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors in cords and nodules of patients with Dupuytren’s disease

Boutonniere deformity of the second toe after planter dislocation of proximal interphalangeal joint: a case report

The cement mantle of femoral hip implants is more influenced by stem-broach sizing than by shape: an in vitro CT analysis of straight Charnley-Kerboul and anatomic Lubinus SPII stems