title: [Progress on tantalum rod implanting for the treatment of femur head necrosis].
abstract: Incorrect treatment for femur head necrosis can cause collapse of femoral head and tresult in severe harm for the patients (especially for the patient with middle-aged and young). The structure and mechanics characteristics of tantalum rod is similar to bone tissue, it higher strength and can adapt the internal environment of organism, so it has a large potency in treating femur head necrosis. Treatment of early femur head necrosis with tantalum rod implanting had alreadly widey applied at home and abroad, the method has the advantages of simple operation, little risk, less complication and beseems the patient with stage I - II of ARCO. But reasons that the difficult diagnosis of early femur head necrosis, localized effect of tantalum rod, different experience of medical worker,caused the contentions about effect of tantalum rod implanting. With development of science, tantalum rod implanting combined with correlative biotechnology should raise the effect in treating femur head necrosis.
authors.affiliation: TheFirst Clinical Medical College of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 310053, Zhejiang, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-kang
authors.initials: XK
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Fu-sheng
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Pei-jian
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: Yan-hua
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ying
authors.forename: Lu-wei
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D005271:Femur Head Necrosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013635:Tantalum; D017211:Treatment Failure
chemical_list: D013635:Tantalum