Surgical treatment of chronic acromioclavicular dislocation: comparison between two surgical procedures for anatomic reconstruction.
Injury
; 41(11): 1103-6, 2010 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Surgical treatment of chronic complete acromioclavicular (AC) joint dislocation is still debated and no gold standard surgical procedure has been identified. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
A retrospective series of 90 patients treated for AC dislocations is reported here. Patients were divided into three groups group 1 receiving AC reconstruction with a Dacron vascular prosthesis; group 2 receiving AC reconstruction with LARS(®) artificial ligament; group 3 receiving conservative treatment. Follow-up was performed after 1, 6 and 15 months with plain radiographs, UCLA, SPADI and modified UCLA acromioclavicular rating scales.RESULTS:
Patients treated surgically presented significant better functional outcome compared to patients treated conservatively with overall positive results in 93.3% of patients for group 2 and 53.3% of patients for group 1. However, reconstruction with Dacron vascular prosthesis presented an unacceptable high complications rate (43.3%).CONCLUSION:
Our results show that anatomic AC reconstruction with LARS(®) artificial ligament resulted in both satisfactory functional outcome and low complication rate. Therefore, we recommend this procedure for the treatment of chronic complete AC dislocations.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Asunto principal:
Articulación Acromioclavicular
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Rango del Movimiento Articular
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Luxaciones Articulares
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Ligamentos Articulares
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Injury
Año:
2010
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Italia