Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Treatment of osteonecrosis of the femoral head using autologous cultured osteoblasts: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Treatment of osteonecrosis of the femoral head using autologous cultured osteoblasts a case report Seok-Jung Kim 1 Won-Jong Bahk1 Cheong-Ho Chang2 Jae-Deog Jang2 and Kyung-Hwan Suhl1 Address Department of Orthopedic Surgery College of Medicine The Catholic University of Korea Seoul Korea and 2Central Research Institute SW-CellonteCh Seoul Korea Email Seok-Jung Kim - peter@ Won-Jong Bahk - wjbahk@ Cheong-Ho Chang - chc@ Jae-Deog Jang - jdjang@ Kyung-Hwan Suhl - suhl94@ Corresponding author Published 25 February 2008 Received 4 July 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 58 doi 1752-1947-2-58 Accepted 25 February 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 58 2008 Kim et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Osteonecrosis of the femoral head is a progressive disease that leads to femoral head collapse and osteoarthritis. Our goal in treating osteonecrosis is to preserve not to replace the femoral head. Case presentation We present the case of a patient with bilateral osteonecrosis of the femoral head treated with autologous cultured osteoblast injection. Conclusion Although our experience is limited to one patient autologous cultured osteoblast transplantation appears to be effective for treating the osteonecrosis of femoral head. Introduction Osteonecrosis of the femoral head is a progressive disease that leads to femoral head collapse and osteoarthritis 1 . A number of surgical procedures have been developed to preserve the femoral head however there is no single treatment method which completely cures this .
