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Adult osteochondritis dissecans and focussed ESWT: A successful treatment option

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 01 Dec 2015Publisher:Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)Journal:International Journal of Surgery, volume 24, pages 191-194 (issn: 1743-9191,

Authors: S. Thiele; R. Thiele; L. Gerdesmeyer;

doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2015.09.035

pmid: 26455533

Adult osteochondritis dissecans and focussed ESWT: A successful treatment option

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Abstract

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) has gained acceptance in the medical field and in the treatment of non-unions and delayed bone healing. ESWT has been used effectively for many years as a noninvasive surgical procedure. The idea of treating Osteochondritis dissecans of knee and talus arose in the middle of the 1990's. OCD is known as a pre-arthritic factor in the long-term and still there is no consistent treatment. In the literature there is still only a small number of publications but international societies for shockwave treatment are convinced that ESWT on OCD shows to be an effective and safe method in the treatment of OCD in the early stages. We want to summarize the actual data on the treatment of OCD by ESWT.

Related Organizations

University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
Germany

Keywords

Adult, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Osteochondritis Dissecans, High-Energy Shock Waves

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