What we treat

We are waiting for you at the Ilizarov Center for the treatment of the following diseases:

Fractures and their consequences:

• Closed isolated or multiple fractures of the skeletal bones including injury of the soft-tissue component of the limbs. Consequences of the fractures
• Trauma consequences: malunions of the long bones, defects and pseudarthrosis
• Defects of the femoral neck, fractures
• Pseudarthrosis, including congenital
• Intraarticular fractures of the lower limb joints
• Posttraumatic defects of the femoral neck
• Open and infected fractures of the different location, including the injuries of the neurovascular bundles
• Tumors and tumor-like damages of the locomotor system

Trauma:

• Gunshot injuries of the limbs
• Multiple, comminuted and combined injuries
• Severe defects of the bony and soft tissues – plastic filling of the tissue defects by the method of the non-free grafting (without using auto-graft)
• Malunions of the femur, tibia, humerus and forearm

Maldevelopments of upper and lower limbs:

• Congenital deformities and shortening of the upper and lower limbs
• Contracturesof the joints
• Short stature
• Achondroplasia
• Hypochondroplasia
• Pseudoachondroplasia
• Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia
• Epimetaphyseal dysplasia
• Diaphyseal dysplasia
• Turner syndrome
• Pituitary dwarfism
• Consequences of the hematogenous osteomyelitis of the upper and lower limbs (shortening and deformities)
• Posttraumatic deformities of the upper and lower limbs
• Correction of the congenital tibial deformities with medialization of the tibial bones
• Congenital and acquired shortening and deformities of the upper and lower limbs
• Consequences of the poliomyelitis and cerebral palsy
• Dislocation of the patella, severe deformities of the knee joint
• System skeletal diseases:
  • Consequences of the rickets
  • Phosphate diabetes
  • Rickets-like diseases
  • Exostosis
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta
  • Fibrous dysplasia
  • Ollier disease
  • Blount disease
  • Consequences of the mucopolysaccharidosis and some different metabolic osteopathy
  • Giantism
  • Subluxations and dislocations
  • Pseudoarthrosis, including congenital

Joints:

• Contractures of the joints
• Congenital and acquired dislocation and subluxation of the femur in children and adults
• Congenital and acquired dislocation of the patella
• Pathological dislocation, defect of the proximal femur
• Dysplastic gonarthrosis
• Posttraumatic, dysplastic and other coxarthrosis
• Osteochondropathy of the hip joint
• Posttraumatic aseptic necrosis of the femoral head
• Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
• Malformations of the hip joint
• Ankylosis of the hip, knee, ankle, shoulder and elbow joints, including in malposition
• Juxta-articular deformities with disorder of the joint function
• Instability of the joints
• Rheumatoid disease of the joints
• Functional malpositions of the limb segments in joints
• Local defects of the bone epiphysis
• Arthrogryposis
• Intra- and juxta-articular malunions of the knee joints
• Recurred dislocation of the humerus bone
• Baker’s cyst
• Fractures, pseudoarthrosis and defects of the femoral neck
• Consequences of the congenital hip dislocations
• Status post-surgery on the hip joint
• Rheumatoid diseases of the large joints
• Deforming arthrosis of the knee joint (gonarthrosis) of any origin
• Revision interventions after previous replacement of the joint
• Injuries of the knee joint meniscus
• Arthroscopy of the small joints (elbow)
• Arthroscopy of the shoulder joints
• Instability of the endoprosthesis and juxta-articular fractures
• Instability of the knee joint, injury of the anterior cruciate ligament
• Recurred dislocation of the patella (including application of the combined treatment techniques – arthroscopy + different assembling of the Ilizarov frame)
• Metabolic-and-dystrophic, posttraumatic and hypoplastic gonarthrosis grade 2-3
• Koenig disease
• Chondromatosis of the large joints
• Lexer disease
• Synovial shelf-syndrome
• Synovitis of unknown etiology
• Rheumatoid monoarthritis (knee, ankle)
• Metabolic dystrophic and post-traumatic ankle arthrosis of I-II grade with (and without) cartilage flaps
• Intra-articular knee fractures
• Humeroscapular periarthritis
• Deforming arthrosis of various etiology
• Supra-acetabular neoarthrosis
• Perthes disease
• Pseudarthrosis
• Defects of the proximal femur and tibia caused by oncological, systemic and rheumatoid diseases
• Joint replacement in pelvic and femoral deformities
• Total and revision joint replacement of the hip, knee, ankle, shoulder and elbow
• Joint replacement with bone plasty
• Reconstructive joint replacement
• Neurosurgery
• Surgical treatment of both isolated and multiple mal-development of the spine and thoracic cage using current implants and systems of deformity control during the child’s growth (VERT, growingrods, Shilla).
• The techniques of acute correction allowing to obtain optimal results and reduce the number and volume of operation are applied in combined mal-development of the spine, thoracic cage and pelvis.
• Surgical treatment of mal-deveolopment, new formations and tethered spinal cord and canal syndrome.
• Correction of idiopathic scoliosis and spinal deformities in systemic (metabolic) and destructive processes, neuro-muscular diseases resulting from different causes and combined deformities including the ones of the most severe grades (exceeding 100°).
• Surgical treatment of the cervical spine pathology in children.
• Surgical treatment of the spine injury and the consequences of injury with acute technique of the spinal support restoration and providing conditions for functional restoration of the spinal cord.
• Thoracic deformity correction with application of minimally invasive thoracoplasty variants by Nass.
• Complicated course of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.
• Spondylolisthesis of any etiology.
• Scoliosis in adults.
• Kyphotic deformities of any etiology in adults.
• Cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine injuries in adults.
• Consequences of the spine and spinal cord injuries in adults.
• Spinal canal stenosis on the background of diseases and injuries.
• Congenital mal-development of the cervical spine and craniocervical area in adults.
• Cervical spine pathology in adults.
• Congenital spine deformities in adults.
• Spine and spinal cord tumor in adults.
• Condition after operative invasions including impaired spinal fixation systems, breakage of device elements and progressing deformities.
• Herniated intervertebral disc.
• Chronic back pain (facet syndrome).
• Chronic coccygodynia.
• Trifacial neuritis.
• Neuroorthopaedics
• CP (cerebral palsy) consequences including pronounced contractures of the lower limb joints.
• Poliomyelitis consequences.
• Hereditary neuropathy.
• Spinal amyotrophy.
• Muscular dystrophy.
• Spinal dysraphism.
• Consequences of trauma, infection diseases and tumors of the central nerve system.
• Reconstructive, restorative and plastic surgery
• Prosthetics/orthotics for restoration of distorted grip function, supportability and walk after amputations and congenital mal-developments of the upper and lower limbs and thoracic deformities and restoration of the skeleton integrity and soft tissues.
• Mal-formations and diseases of the limb stumps of different genesis (trauma consequences, congenital mal-developments, vascular pathology, oncology) while preparing to the prosthetics.
• Scar and scar deformities of all segments.
• Diseases and injuries of hand
• Post-traumatic deformities of the metacarpal bones and fingers.
• Neurogenic hand deformities.
• Mal-united fractures of the distal forearm.
• Neglected injury of flexor and/or extensor tendon of the fingers. Pots-traumatic contracture of the finger joints.
• Fresh and neglected dislocation and dislocation-fracture of the wrist.
• Dupuytren’s contracture.
• Post-traumatic stumps of metacarpal and finger bones.
• Post-traumautic defects of the soft tissues and persistent wounds.
• Post-traumatic neuropathy of the median and ulnar nerve (late period), neglected injury of the digital flexors and extensors and combined contracture of the hand joints.
• Carpal tunnel syndrome, neuropathy of the forearm median nerve.
• Rheumatoid polyarthritis of the hand joints.
• Closed fracture and pseudarthrosis of navicular bone.
• Hand bones cysts and enchondroma
• All types of congenital hand mal-development.
• Congenital and acquired club-hand.
• Hygroma, synovioma. Stenosis of tendon canals.
• Extensive post-burn keloid scars.
• Closed hand bones fractures.
• Open fractures of the forearm in the lower third.
• Hand joints arthroses of post-traumatic and degenerative character.
• Neglected tendon injuries
• Diseases and injuries of foot
• Congenital and acquired foot deformities, including the recurrent ones.
• Deforming arthrosis of the foot joints of grade III.
• Transverse flatfoot and valgus deformity of the great toe.
• Hammer toe.
• Poliomyelitis sequeli, i.e. contractures of the large joints, limb shortening and foot deformities.
• Mal-development of the foot bones and adjacent segments
• Mal-united and mal-uniting fractures of the foot.
• Lengthening of the foot and tibial stumps and formation of the foot-like support.
• Cosmetic modeling of tibia.
• Joint replacement of the I and II metatarsophalangeal joints.
• Split foot.
• Infection osteology
• Chronic hematogenous, post-traumatic, post-operative and gun-shot osteomyelitis.
• Infected endoprosthesis of any location and consequences of joint replacement.
• Infection consequences of bone plating and intramedullary nailing (any plates, nails, rods, screws, etc.)
• patients with neurosurgical pathology complicated with infection.
• Trophic ulcers and bedsores.