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Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
2009 Volume.44 No. 1 p.8 ~ p.13
Steroid-induced Early Changes in the Femoral Head and Hip Joint in Rats
Kang Chan

Hwang Deuk-Soo
Lee Won-Seok
Kim Jin-Man
Kang Tae-Hwan
Abstract
Purpose: To determine if the early changes to the articular cartilage and synovium of the hip joint in relation to steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head is either as a preceding factor or as a secondary consequence in the pathomechanism.

Materials and Methods: Thirty-two Sprague Dawley rats were divided into two groups, 16 receiving a steroid injection and 16 as a control group. Tissue samples of the hip joint were taken from 4 rats from each group every 4 weeks over a 16 week period. The specimens were investigated for the early changes to the articular cartilage, subchondral bone of the femoral head and the synovium after H & E staining and toluidine blue stain. Five histological criteria were applied to determine the cartilage status.

Results: Histologically, there was a gradual increase in chondrocyte cloning in the steroid injection group. In addition, synovial hypertrophy and the enlargement of fatty cysts with the loss of hematopoietic cells were observed.

Conclusion: Synovial hypertrophy and some evidences of articular cartilage degeneration associated with steroid-induced early femoral head osteonecrosis appears to be the result of a direct inflammatory reaction to the steroid injection. This suggests that early presentation of the pathologic lesion in the hip joint might occur without definitive radiological evidence of femoral head osteonecrosis.
KEYWORD
Steroid, Osteonecrosis of femoral head, Articular cartilage, Synovial hypertrophy, Chondrocyte cloning
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