American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2OO9 Annual Meeting

How much does the addition of locked screws add to the stability of Hybrid Fixation. Tornetta, Schmidt, Freeman, Bechtold, Fleming, Ricci. Paper Presentation AAOS Feb 25

Improved Torsional Fatigue Properties with Thin Locked vs non Locked Plate Constructs. Tornetta, Russell, Petty, jones, Gerlach, Ricci . Paper Presentation AAOS Feb 27.

Osteochondral lesions in the talus: Predictors of outcome and treatment algorithm. Smith, Cuttica, Hyer, Decarbo, Philbin, Lee, Berlet. AAOS poster Presentation.

Clinical outcomes of retrograde drilling in the treatment of osteochondral lesions of the talus. O'Loughlin,Lobo, O'Malley, Potter, Birchansky, Kennedy Paper Presentation AOFAS Specialty Day, Feb 28.

Clinical outcomes of micrfracture for cystic type ostechonral lesions of the talus. Jung and Carag. Paper Presentation AOFAS Specialty Day, Feb 28.

Fresh Osteochondral allograft transplantation for osteochondral lesions of the talus. Gortz and Bugbee. Paper Presentation AOFAS Specialty Day, Feb 28.

Prospective comparison of open and arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis using validated outcome measures. DiSilvestro, Wing, Penner, Krause, Younger. AAOS Poster presentation.

Prospective Controlled trial of STAR ankle replacement vs ankle fusion: Initial results. Saltzman, Mann, Coughlin. AAOS paper presentation, Feb 25.

Multi centered prospective outcome cohort study: ankle arthrodesis vs total ankle arthroplasty. Glazebrook, Daniels, Wing, Penner, Stevens, Dryden, Stone, Lau. AAOS paper presentation, Feb 25.

Mid to long term survivorship of HINTEGRA total ankle. Hintermann and Barg. AAOS paper presentation, Feb 25.