[Follow-up results following Matti-Russe grafting in navicular pseudarthrosis]

The navicular pseudarthrosis is in case of early and appropriate treatment of the navicular fracture relatively seldom. It develops often after a too late diagnosed or insufficiently treated navicular fracture. After an introduction of the pathogenetic causes of the navicular pseudarthrosis we give a survey over the operative methods of treatment represented in literature favourising the method of the implantation of a corticospongious bone-graft after Matti in the modification of Russe, which we prefer in our hospital. We base the long-term results of our treatment on a casuistic of 105 patients, operated after the method Matti-Russe. We performed a follow-up of 68 patients between 3 and 16 years after the operation (8,4 years on average). In our critical examination we put stress on the functional results, on the subjective and objective sucess of the operation, on the professional situation of the patients and its social-medical meaning. At last we give a comparison with the most extensive casuistics of the literature.