Joint Repair and Replacement: Clinical Updates and Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

Primary and secondary osteoarthritis, post-traumatic and oncological sequelae, and articular avascular necrosis have always represented a challenging management problem for orthopaedic surgeons and traumatologists. The bone tissue loss, characteristic of these clinical pictures, has conditioned operational choices in favour of more invasive and sometimes disabling interventions. Often, the poor quality or quantity of bone substance does not allow standard prosthetic devices to be implanted or requires large amounts of cadaveric or autologous bone grafts, with related risks and complications.

Today, thanks to technological improvement in terms of planning and implants, the possibilities of joint reconstruction and replacement, as well as of treatment of malalignments and loss of periarticular bone substance, have been considerably extended. This is due to new approaches including, for example, computerized navigation and 3D printed custom-made surgery.

We are therefore proud to present this Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine, a reliable and serious journal, always committed to scientific divulgation in many fields of medical knowledge—in this case, serving orthopaedics and traumatology.

The aim of this Special Issue is to share the personal experience of groups and authors currently working on articular and periarticular treatment solutions, their impressions on opportunities and limits, the results obtained, and the problems that have arisen. All this can be achieved through valid research articles that prove to be of high impact and interest to the orthopaedic community.

Dr. Massimiliano Mosca
Dr. Silvio Caravelli
Dr. Alberto Grassi
Guest Editors

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