Treatment of Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Capitellum Using BioCartilage in Adolescent Athletes Results in Safe and Timely Return to Play
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objectives: Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) is a condition affecting the capitellum in adolescent overhead athletes causing separation of articular cartilage from the subchondral bone. Multiple treatment strategies addressing these lesions have been described. The purpose of this study was to report a novel technique using BioCartilage® (Arthrex, Naples, FL) to augment microfracture of OCD lesions of the capitellum in adolescent athletes with the prediction that this would lead to favorable clinical outcomes. Methods: A retrospective review was performed of 5 patients with OCD lesions of the capitellum who underwent open surgical intervention with BioCartilage implantation through a lateral approach to the elbow. There were 4 female patients and 1 male patient. The mean age was 13 years. The average follow-up was 55.8 months. Results: Each patient returned to their original sport at 6 months with a painless range of motion and full strength. American Shoulder and Elbow Scores and Mayo Elbow Performance Scales postoperatively were 100, and Visual Analog Scales were 0/10 for each patient. There were no complications or reoperations. Radiographs obtained at 6 to 8 months postoperatively showed healing of the lesions with no further evidence of an osseous defect. Conclusion: Our technique shows promising mid-term results. A safe and timely return to play was achieved in each case. This technique offers advantages by providing an excellent range of motion and return to sport using a familiar open approach.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".