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Int J Sports Med 2020; 41(12): 873-878
DOI: 10.1055/a-1186-1575
Clinical Sciences

Characteristics of Osteochondral Lesions of the Talus in Different Age Groups

Yongxing Cao
1   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
2   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital North, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
,
Yang Xu
1   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
2   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital North, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
,
Qiang Huang
1   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
2   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital North, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
,
Yuan Hong
1   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
2   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital North, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
,
Xiangyang Xu
1   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
2   Department of Orthopedics, Ruijin Hospital North, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
› Author Affiliations Funding This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 81772372) and the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission (no. 201940339).
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Abstract

We analyzed the characteristics of 112 consecutive patients who were operatively treated for osteochondral lesions of the talus from August 2014 to April 2019 in our hospital. The patients were divided into three age groups: young-adult (<40 years), middle-age (40–60 years) and old-age (>60 years). The basic clinical features, localization and size of the lesions, Hepple stage, and surgical procedures were compared among groups. Several significant differences were found on the characteristics of osteochondral lesions of the talus among age groups. There were more female patients in the old-age group (p<0.01), and old patients had a longer duration of symptoms (p<0.05). The OLTs in middle- and old-age patients were mostly located in the medial part of the talus with larger depth (p<0.01). Hepple stage 5, the cystic type, was very common in the old-age group (p<0.01). With regard to surgical procedures, more osteochondral autograft transplantations were applied in the old-age group (p<0.01). Female and deep medial talar subchondral cyst is the typical characteristics of patients over 60 years old. Age is an important factor that must be considered when choosing surgery procedure for patients with osteochondral lesions of the talus.

Key words

osteochondral lesion - ankle - age - localization - talus


Publication History

Received: 22 March 2020

Accepted: 18 May 2020

Article published online:
20 July 2020

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