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New Therapies of Bone Necrosis

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Femoral head osteonecrosis is an ischemic necrosis of subchondral bone and bone marrow due to posttraumatic or nontraumatic causes. Nontraumatic femoral head necrosis affects mainly young people and leads to early destruction of the hip joint. However, the orthopedic surgeon is facing the challenge of treating the hip joint of a young person. Arthroplasty in young age has the risk of many future revisions, so that diagnosis should be made in the very early stage of FHN, preferably ARCO stage 1.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Wolf Drescher

  2. Department of Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery, Agaplesion Ev. Bathildis-Hospital, Bad Pyrmont, Germany

    Wolf Drescher

  3. Department of Traumatology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

    Matthias Knobe

  4. Division for Stem Cell Biology and Cellular Engineering, Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

    Wolfgang Wagner

  5. Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, RWTH University, Aachen, Germany

    Thomas Pufe

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Kyung-Hoi Koo

  2. Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, Center for Joint Preservation and Replacement, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Michael A. Mont

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Lynne C. Jones

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Drescher, W., Knobe, M., Wagner, W., Pufe, T. (2014). New Therapies of Bone Necrosis. In: Koo, KH., Mont, M., Jones, L. (eds) Osteonecrosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35767-1_37

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