Total elbow arthroplasty in the face of significant bone stock or soft tissue losses. Preliminary results of custom-fit arthroplasty. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • There is a class of patients with severe bone stock or soft tissue losses who remain an unsolved problem in elbow reconstruction. The authors report the results of 16 such patients who underwent 16 total elbow replacements. Follow-up averaged 4.0 years (range, 2.0-9.6 years). Fourteen patients had previous surgery on their elbows and three had been previously infected. Fourteen of the 16 patients had a good or excellent result, and overall elbow scores averaged 90 (range, 53-100). There were three reoperations and one case of nonprogressive circumferential lucent lines about a humeral component with clinical symptoms. There were no other cases of clinical or radiographic implant loosening and no implant fractures. The preliminary results of this study indicate that custom-fit total elbow arthroplasty offers acceptable functional results in a devastated elbow when normal methods of reconstruction are not suitable.

publication date

  • January 1, 1986

Research

keywords

  • Elbow Joint
  • Joint Prosthesis

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0022995462

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/s0883-5403(86)80044-4

PubMed ID

  • 3559584

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 1

issue

  • 2