Stage-related results in treatment of hip osteonecrosis with core-decompression and autologous mesenchymal stem cells


Published online: Sep 27 2015

Pietro PERSIANI, Claudia DE CRISTO, Jole GRACI, Giovanni NOIA, Michele GURZÌ, Ciro VILLANI

From Universitary Department of Anatomic, Histologic, Forensic and Locomotor Apparatus Sciences, Section of Locomotor Apparatus Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome

Abstract

Our aim is to analyse the clinical outcome of a series of patients affected by avascular necrosis of the femoral head and treated with core-decompression technique and autologous stromal cells of the bone marrow.We enrolled in our study 29 patients with 3

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