Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics Main Menu Home Page Treatment of benign lesions of the femoral head and neck. One patient was treated with only the curretage and strut graft. In treating fibrous dysplasia, dysplastic bone should be supplemented with grafts of cortical bone. This construct provides increased strength and prevents deformity and fracture, but it does not eradicate the disease.
Internal fixation promotes union of the cortical graft to the host cancellous bone.
The sliding screw stabilizes the bone and eliminates the need for plaster casts.