A soccer player with idiopathic osteonecrosis of the complete lateral talar dome: a case report.
We report a 13-year-old soccer player with osteonecrosis of the talus and a large carticular fragment. The defect was revitalized with curettage and drilling and filled with autologous bone graft followed by the fixation of the carticular fragment with two conventional lag screws. Screw placement was such that they could be removed arthroscopically. Healing was uneventful. Eighteen months postoperative hardware was indeed removed arthroscopically. He returned to his former competitive level without restrictions or complaints.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. jdoornberg@partners.org
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Doornberg
Peter A J
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de Leeuw
Maartje
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Zengerink
C Niek
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van Dijk
D000293:Adolescent; D001182:Arthroscopy; D001863:Bone Screws; D003475:Curettage; D020878:Device Removal; D006801:Humans; D051457:Hyaline Cartilage / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D010020:Osteonecrosis / Q000601:surgery*; D012038:Regeneration; D012916:Soccer; D013628:Talus / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D013977:Tibia / Q000637:transplantation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous