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"One step" treatment of juvenile osteochondritis dissecans in the knee: clinical results and T2 mapping characterizationFrancesca Vannini
II Clinic of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Via G C Pupilli 1, Bologna 40136, Italy
Orthop Clin North Am 43:237-44, vi. 2012..The goal of this study is to evaluate and report the clinical and MRI findings for the treatment of OCD in the pediatric knee with bone marrow-derived cell transplantation by using a one-step surgical technique...
Arthroscopic autologous chondrocyte implantation in osteochondral lesions of the talus: mid-term T2-mapping MRI evaluationMilva Battaglia
Service of Ecography and Radiology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 19:1376-84. 2011..The aim of this study was to evaluate the mid-term results of a series of patients arthroscopically treated by ACI and investigate the nature of the repair tissue by MRI T2 mapping...
Surgical treatment of osteochondral lesions of the talus by open-field autologous chondrocyte implantation: a 10-year follow-up clinical and magnetic resonance imaging T2-mapping evaluationSandro Giannini
VI Division of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Via G C Pupilli 1, Bologna, Italy
Am J Sports Med 37:112S-8S. 2009..Furthermore, magnetic resonance imaging T2 mapping is becoming an increasingly used method for noninvasive assessment of repair tissue in the knee, but no experience on the ankle has been reported...
How to treat osteochondritis dissecans of the knee: surgical techniques and new trends: AAOS exhibit selectionElizaveta Kon
III Clinic of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna 20136, Italy
J Bone Joint Surg Am 94:e1(1-8). 2012..Osteochondritis dissecans is a relatively common cause of knee pain. The aim of this study was to describe the outcomes of five different surgical techniques in a series of sixty patients with osteochondritis dissecans...
Arthroscopic autologous chondrocyte implantation in osteochondral lesions of the talus: surgical technique and resultsSandro Giannini
University of Bologna, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Via G C Pupilli 1, 40136, Bologna, Italy
Am J Sports Med 36:873-80. 2008..Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) in the ankle was considered up to now an extremely technically demanding surgery with considerable morbidity for the patients...
Operative treatment of osteochondral lesions of the talar dome: current concepts reviewSandro Giannini
University of Bologna, Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Via G C Pupilli, 1, Bologna 40136, Italy
Foot Ankle Int 25:168-75. 2004..In this review, the aforementioned methods of operative treatment are examined and issues that are related to these methods are discussed...
Bipolar fresh osteochondral allograft for the treatment of glenohumeral post-traumatic arthritisSandro Giannini
Clinical Orthopaedic and Traumatology Unit II, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 20:1953-7. 2012..Aim of this report is to describe an original technique for BFOA implantation in the shoulder and to describe the clinical and histological results at 30-month follow-up...
Matrix-assisted autologous chondrocyte transplantation for cartilage regeneration in osteoarthritic knees: results and failures at midterm follow-upGiuseppe Filardo
Biomechanics Laboratory, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy
Am J Sports Med 41:95-100. 2013..Young patients with osteoarthritic knees are a challenging population because of a combination of high functional demands and limited indication for joint replacement...
An unusual cause of external snapping hipMilva Battaglia
Service of Ecography and Radiology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy
J Radiol Case Rep 5:1-6. 2011..Diagnosis was allowed by an integrated clinical and radiological approach, based on dynamic ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...
Unusual supero-medial iliac fatigue stress fractureMilva Battaglia
Service of Echography and Radiology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Via G C Pupilli 1, 40136, Bologna, Italy
Skeletal Radiol 41:103-6. 2012..Although the fracture was evident on the MRI, the findings were subtle and overlooked. The fracture was later confirmed by CT and radiograph, showing the reparative process...
Augmentation technique with semitendinosus and gracilis tendons in chronic partial lesions of the ACL: clinical and arthrometric analysisRoberto Buda
Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, University of Bologna, Via Pupilli 1, Bologna, Italy
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 14:1101-7. 2006..7% of cases. No recurrences in ligamentous laxity were observed. We believe that the described technique has the advantage of being compatible with ACL anatomy, and enables very rapid functional recovery...
Osteoarticular grafts in the treatment of OCD of the talus: mosaicplasty versus autologous chondrocyte transplantationSandro Giannini
Orthopaedic Department, University of Bologna, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Via GC Pupilli, 1 Bologna, 40136, Italy
Foot Ankle Clin 7:621-33. 2002..The use of growth factors and new tissue engineering techniques in the future would simplify the methodology, rendering it less invasive and more effective...
Histological and immunohistochemical analysis of an allogenic bone graft engineered with autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells in the treatment of a large segmental defect of the ulna. A case reportSandro Giannini
Sixth Division, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Via G C Pupilli 1, Bologna, Italy
Chir Organi Mov 91:171-5. 2008..For these reasons, we may hypothesise that the use of BMMCs has a role in the re-building of large segmental defects...
Validity of preoperative ultrasound-guided aspiration in the revision of hip prosthesisMilva Battaglia
Service of Ecography and Radiology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy
Ultrasound Med Biol 37:1977-83. 2011..75%) and accuracy (83% vs. 40%) than fluoroscopic-guided aspiration. The combination of ultrasound-guided aspiration and C-reactive protein represents the best model to predict septic loosening hip prosthesis preoperatively...
Dynamic hip screw compared with external fixation for treatment of osteoporotic pertrochanteric fractures. A prospective, randomized studyAntonio Moroni
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bologna University, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Via G C Pupilli, 1, 40136 Bologna, Italy
J Bone Joint Surg Am 87:753-9. 2005..Therefore, we compared the two treatments in a clinical trial of elderly patients with pertrochanteric fracture...
Interdigital neuroma: clinical examination and histopathologic results in 63 cases treated with excisionSandro Giannini
University of Bologna, Instituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Via G C Pupilli, 1, Bologna 40136, Italy
Foot Ankle Int 25:79-84. 2004..The precise etiology of interdigital neuroma remains obscure...
