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Healing of cancellous bone osteotomy in rabbits—Part II: Local reversal of arthritis‐induced osteopenia after osteotomy
Author(s) -
Bogoch E.,
Gschwend N.,
Rahn B.,
Moran E.,
Perren S.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of orthopaedic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.041
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1554-527X
pISSN - 0736-0266
DOI - 10.1002/jor.1100110217
Subject(s) - osteotomy , medicine , osteopenia , condyle , arthritis , bone healing , endochondral ossification , metaphysis , surgery , osteoporosis , anatomy , pathology , bone mineral , cartilage
With use of the intravital bone label calcein, we previously identified, by histomorphometry, greatly increased new bone formation and juxtaarticular osteopenia (a high turnover state) in carrageenan‐induced experimental inflammatory arthritis of the knee in rabbits. In Part I of this paper, we showed that a large increase in new bone formation after a stable incomplete distal femoral condylar osteotomy of normal bone in the rabbit does not increase bone volume (BV) in normal tissue adjacent to the osteotomy (zone 1). In this study, we performed an osteotomy of bone made osteopenic by experimental inflammatory arthritis. After 4 weeks of healing, we examined new bone formation and BV in five zones around the osteotomy. In zone 0 (the osteotomy gap), new bone formation filled the gap to normal BV, as we found for the normal/osteotomy group. In zone 1 (adjacent to but excluding the osteotomy gap), we found greatly increased new bone formation and a return to normal BV, increased from the osteopenic level induced by experimental inflammatory arthritis. In this model, osteotomy apparently reversed the bone‐wasting process of inflammatory arthritis. This effect was not observed in other zones: the lateral condyle that had not been operated on, the metaphysis, or the diaphysis.