Arthroscopic elbow joint release with radial head resection arthroplasty: 12 cases

Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Surgery & Research : OTSR
B Chedal BornuP Clavert

Abstract

Elbow arthritis typically affects manual labourers aged 40 to 50 years and usually starts in the lateral compartment. The objective of this study was to evaluate the medium-term clinical, functional, and radiological outcomes in 12 patients after arthroscopic elbow joint release and radial head resection arthroplasty. Our main hypothesis was that pre-operative damage to the radio-capitellar joint was associated with poorer clinical outcomes after elbow joint release. Consecutive patients treated by a single surgeon at a single centre between July 2006 and May 2014 were studied retrospectively. The 12 patients - 10 males and 2 females with a mean age of 54.5±9.3 years (33-69 years) - had osteoarthritis confined to the radio-capitellar compartment with elbow stiffness and pain and underwent arthroscopic elbow joint release with radial head resection arthroplasty. Among them, 9 had a history of trauma or micro-trauma and 3 had rheumatoid arthritis. The Broberg and Morrey osteoarthritis grade on the pre-operative radiographs was 1 in 4 patients, 2 in 6 patients, and 3 in 2 patients. Mean follow-up was 38.1±33.7 months (5-97). One patient required total elbow arthroplasty. Mean arc of motion was 79.6°±20.5° (30-110) pre-operatively,...Continue Reading

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