Research Article
Clinical and Radiological Outcomes of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in Early-Stage Femoral Head Osteonecrosis
Table 3
The overall clinical outcomes after ESWT.
| | Clinical outcome | ARCO grade-I ( = 5 hips) | ARCO grade-II ( = 28 hips) | Total series ( = 33 hips) | | no. (%) | no. (%) | no. (%) |
| | Improved | 4 (80%) | 17 (60.7%) | 21 (63.3%) | | Unchanged | 1 (20%) | 4 (14.3%) | 5 (15.15%) | | Worse | 0 (0%) | 7 (25%) | 7 (21.2%) | | Total hip arthroplasty | 0 (0%) | 4 (14.3%) | 4 (12.1%) |
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ESWT: extracorporeal shock wave therapy; ARCO: the Association Research Circulation Osseous.
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