Surgical treatment of isolated patellofemoral osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Isolated patellofemoral (PF) osteoarthritis (OA) affects 9% of persons older than 40 years. Nonoperative treatment should be exhausted fully before surgical treatment.

Questions/purposes

The purpose of this article is to review the literature after 2008 with the aim of answering the following question: Which of the following surgical procedures has the highest survival rate and the lowest revision rate in advanced isolated PF OA: patellofemoral arthroplasty (PFA), total knee arthroplasty (TKA) or lateral facetectomy.

Methods

The search engine was MedLine. The keywords used were: PF OA and PFA. Three hundred and fifty-three articles were found between 2008 and 25 July 2013. Of those, only 23 were selected and reviewed because they were strictly focused on th

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Merchan EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903957 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature