2008 年 32 巻 3 号 p. 573-575
We had used needle wires to fix greater and lesser tuberosity fragments and humeral prosthesis. The purpose of this report was to evaluate the cable wire system for shoulder hemiarthroplasty. We performed hemiarthroplasty on 13 patients from1999 to 2006. Three cases were males and 10 were females. The average age was 63 years old. We compared the 2 groups; Group A: simple needle wire from 1999 to 2003, Group B: cable wire system (the compounded needle wire with compression device) from 2004 to 2006. Group A was composed of 6 cases and Group B was 7 cases. We evaluated the results by the Japan Orthopeadic Association's (JOA) score. The average postoperative JOA score was 69.2 points in Group A and 86.2 in GroupB. The cable wire system was considered to be effective to fix greater and the lesser tuberosities.