Two-stage bone and meniscus allograft and autologous chondrocytes implant for unicompartmental osteoarthritis: midterm results.

Background: We analyzed the clinical and radiographic evolution of patients with knee unicompartmental osteoarthritis and axis alteration and osteochondral lesions in the femoral condyle, treated with tibial plateau and meniscus allograft and cultured autologous chondrocyte implantation in the femur in two steps.

Purpose: To analyze the clinical results with the first patients treated with this two-stage technique to avoid knee prosthesis in patients with unicompartmental osteoarthritis.

Material And Methodology: Sixteen patients, average age 56 years, were included in a cohort study.

Distal femoral dome varus osteotomy: surgical technique with minimal dissection and external fixation.

Unlabelled: The results obtained when employing distal femoral varus osteotomy are variable. Our objective was to describe a surgical technique involving minimal dissection, semicircular osteotomy with external fixation for valgus angular deformities, and early weight bearing.

Design: Series of cases.

[Transpatellar "W" cerclage with anterior tension band for fixation of transverse fractures of the patella].

Objective: To evaluate functional outcomes in postoperative period in patients with displaced transverse fracture of the patella treated with anterior tension band and double knot fixation.

Material And Methods: Multicentric case series: Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery Hospitals "Lomas Verdes" and "Magdalena de las Salinas" of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS).

Patients: eighteen patients with displaced transverse fracture of the patella, treated with open reduction and fixation with 1.