Description
- Elbow osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) commonly occurs in overhead athletes. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of those patients, who consists of 3 males and 3 females with OCD occurred in athletes other than baseball player.
- The average age was 13 years and average duration of follow-up was 15 months. The affected side were left in 2, right in 5 and 1 case was bilateral. Main elbow position to induce the pain were extension in 4 and flexion in 3. Sporting events were gymnastics in 3, basketball in 1, volleyball (setter) in 1, hand ball (goal keeper) in 1, judo in 1.
- Conservative treatment in 2elbows and surgery in 5elbows. The median preoperative elbow flexion-extension arch was 133°. The median postoperative elbow flexion-extension arch was 143°. Lesion were found at humeral capitellum of posterior in 3cases and anterior in 4cases. All patients were return to sports in competitive level.
- OCD occurs in various location by each sport. We have to consider the pathology of OCD based on the feature of the sport.
