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* Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata City
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo City, Japan
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Masatoshi Takahara, MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Iida-Nish 2, Yamagata City, 990-9585, Japan
We examined 24 patients with osteochondritis dissecans of the humeral capitellum to determine the results of nonoperative treatment. The average age of the patients at the initial examination was 13.3 years (range, 11 to 16). All the patients were advised to stop heavy use of the elbow for 6 months. At the last examination, at a mean follow-up period of 5.2 years, 4 patients (17%) had no residual elbow pain, 7 (29%) had pain only with heavy activities, and 13 (54%) had pain with activities of daily living. Final radiographs were obtained for 15 lesions, of which 3 lesions were assessed as healed, 3 as improved, and 9 as not improved. Five of 11 lesions in the early stage and all 4 advanced lesions failed to show radiographic improvement. These results suggest that osteochondritis dissecans of the capitellum has only a slight tendency to heal, and that instability can cause failure of the lesion to heal.
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