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Regenerative therapies increase survivorship of avascular necrosis of the femoral head: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Luca AndrioloGiulia MerliCarlos TobarSante Alessandro AltamuraElizaveta KonGiuseppe Filardo
Published in: International orthopaedics (2018)
Regenerative therapies offer good clinical results for the treatment of AVN. The combination of CD with regenerative techniques provides a significant improvement in terms of survivorship over time compared with CD alone. Further studies are needed to identify the best procedure and the most suitable patients to benefit from regenerative treatments for AVN.
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