EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Rocco Papalia, MD, Ph.D

Member of Scientific Committee, Director of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Full Professor of Locomotor system diseases, Director of Residency Program in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

ASSISTANT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Biagio Zampogna, MD, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, University of Messina – University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

DEPUTY EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Giuseppe Longo Umile, MD, MSc, Ph.D

Orthopaedics and Traumatology specialist, Associate professor of Locomotor system diseases, Head of Sport Medicine, Scientific Vice Director, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Mario Ronga, Ph.D
Full Professor of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Chief of Orthopaedic and Trauma Operative Unit, Department Of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara “Maggiore della Carità” Hospital, Novara, Italy

FOUNDING EDITOR

Giuseppe Milano, Ph.D

Full professor, Chair of the Orthopaedic Department, University of Brescia
Director of the Unit of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2, “Spedali Civili” Hospital, Brescia, Italy

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Paolo Adravanti, MD
Chief of Orthopaedics Department, Clinic “Città di Parma”, Parma, Italy

Massimo Berruto, MD
Head of UOS of Knee Joint Surgery of Asst Gaetano Pini-Cto of Milan, Milan, Italy

David Dejour, MD
Head director Lyon-Ortho-Clinic, Unité Chirurgie du Genou, Sportive & Dégénératif, Clinique de la Sauvegarde, Lyon, France

Giovanni Di Giacomo, MD

Head of the Orthopedics and Traumatology department at the Concordia Hospital in Rome (ISAKOS and SIAGASCOT TEACHING CENTER)

Elizaveta Kon, Ph.D

SIAGASCOT President 2024-2025, President of ICRS, Head of the Translational Orthopaedics session, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy

Renato Andrade, Ph.D

Clínica Espregueira – FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Portugal

Giuseppe Milano, Ph.D

Chair of the Orthopaedic Department, University of Brescia, Director of the Unit of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2, “Spedali Civili” Hospital, Brescia, Italy

Gjis Van Hellemondt, Ph.D

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Orthopaedic Clinic St. Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Luigi Pederzini, MD
Chief of Orthopaedic Department, Nuovo Ospedale di Sassuolo, Sassuolo, Italy

Yuichi Hoshino, Ph.D

Lecturer Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Pierfrancesco Indelli, Ph.D

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine Redwood City, CA, USA

Giuseppe Peretti, Ph.D
Chief of the Equipe of Regenerative and Reconstructive Orthopaedics (EUORR), IRCCS Hospital Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, Italy

Pietro S. Randelli, Ph.D
Vice President of SIOT (Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology), Full Professor in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, ASST Pini-CTO Milano, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Emilio Lopez Vidriero, Ph.D

Director and Chief of Traumatology ISMEC – International Sports Medicine Clinic, Sevilla, Spain

Roberto Rossi, MD, Ph.D
Mauriziano Umberto I Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

David Figueroa, MD, Ph.D

Chief of Knee Surgery Orthopedic Department Clinica Alemana, Chief of Orthopedic Academic Department Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile

Alfredo Schiavone Panni, Ph.D

Full Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Dror Lindner, Ph.D

Head of Sport Injuries Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shamir Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Stefano Zaffagnini, Ph.D
Full Professor of Orthopadics, Director of the complex structure 2nd Orthopaedic-Traumatologic Clinic Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Mike Baums, Ph.D

Head of the Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma Surgery and Sports Traumatology at St. Elizabeth-Hospital, Dorsten, Germany

Pablo Narbona, MD

Head of the Shoulder Department, Sanatorio Allende, Córdoba, Argentina

Kristian Samuelsson, Ph.D

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Knee and Sports Medicine Specialist, Department of Orthopaedics, Institute of Clinical Sciences, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden

Matej Drobnič, MD, Ph.D

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ljubljana University Medical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Alan Ivković, MD, Ph.D

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital Sveti Duh; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Applied Health Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Cassandra Lee, MD

Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sacramento, CA, USA

Saseendar Shanmugasundaram, MS, DNB, Dip SICOT

Professor of Orthopaedics, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India

Emmanuel Papacostas, MD 

Aspetar – Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

 Stefan Nehrer, MD

Center for Regenerative Medicine, Department for Health Sciences, Medicine and Research, University for Continuing Education Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

ORTHOBIOLOGY

Laura De Girolamo, MSc, Ph.D

Director of the Orthopaedic Biotechnology, Laboratory of the Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute Sant’Ambogio, Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Filardo, MD

Applied and Translational Research (ATR) Center, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

Antongiulio Marmotti, MD

Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, San Luigi Hospital, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

SHOULDER

Massimo Di Benedetto, MD

Orthopaedic Division of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Villa Verde Hospital, Fermo, Italy

Edoardo Franceschetti, MD

Orthopaedic surgeon, Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Maristella Saccomanno, MD, Ph.D

Orthopedic surgeon, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, University of Brescia, Italy

KNEE

Stefano Campi, MD

Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy

Federica Rosso, MD

Mauritian Order of Turin, Mauriziano Umberto I Hospital, University of Turin, Italy

Arcangelo Russo, MD, Ph.D

Department of Musculoskeletal System Diseases, Kore University, Enna, Italy

SPORT MEDICINE

Alberto Grassi, MD, Ph.D

2nd Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Clinic at the Orthopaedics and Traumatology at Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Edoardo Monaco, Ph.D

Associate Professor, University of Rome La Sapienza, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy

ELBOW

Paolo Arrigoni, Ph.D
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Orthopaedic Clinic, University of Milan, Orthopaedic Institute ASST G.PINI – CTO, Milan, Italy

HIP

Manlio Panascì, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Specialist Hip Surgery, San Carlo di Nancy Hospital – Gvm care and research – Villa Stuart Sport Clinic, Rome, Italy

ANKLE

Matteo Guelfi, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Foot and Ankle Unit, Casa di Cura Villa Montallegro, Genoa, Italy

PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT

Paolo Ferrua, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Assistant Professor, I Clinica Ortopedica – Università degli Studi di Milano ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milan, Italy

OSTEOTOMY

Sebastiano Vasta, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, Rome, Italy

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Filippo Familiari, MD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy

Lorenzo Moretti, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Orthopaedics and Traumatology 1st and 2nd Orthopedic Clinic, Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy

Luigi Sabatini, MD

Head of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Orthopaedic Department, Humanitas Gradenigo, Turin, Italy

CURRENT CONCEPTS

Giovanni Bonaspetti, MD

Head of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Operating Unit section. II of the S. Anna Clinical Institute of Brescia, San Donato Hospital Group, Brescia, Italy

Giuseppe Solarino, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Department of Translational biomedicine and neuroscience, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

GUIDELINES AND SURVEY

Riccardo Compagnoni, MD

1st Orthopedic Clinic, ASST Centro Specialistico Ortopedico Traumatologico Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milan, Italy

Vincenzo Condello, MD

Traumatology, Humanitas Castelli Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

REHABILITATION

Cristiano Sconza, MD

Department of Rehabilitation and Functional Recovery, IRCCS Humanitas Research Center, Rozzano, Italy

REVIEWERS

Erika Albo, MD

Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Luca Ambrosio, MD

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Aprato, MD, Ph.D

Orthopedic surgeon, University of Turin, City of Health and Science, Turin, Italy

Benedikt Schliemann, MD

Department of Trauma Surgery, Herz-Jesu Krankenhaus, Münster, Germany

Flavio Azzola, MD

Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Sant’ Anna Institute (Gruppo S. Donato), Brescia, Italy

Corrado Bait, MD
Chief of Joint Surgery and Sport Medicine Unit Villa Aprica Clinical Institute, Como, Milan, Italy

Susanna Basciani, MD

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Clemens Koesters, Ph.D

Head of Orthopaedic, Trauma- and Handsurgery Department, Maria-Josef-Hospital Greven, Münster, Germany

Alessandra Berton, MD, UOC

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Ricardo Basto Filo, Ph.D

Clínica Espregueira, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Portugal

Tommaso Bonanzinga, MD

Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, Rozzano, Humanitas University, Department of Biomedical Sciences Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Calafiore, MD
Orthopedic surgeon, Casa Di Cura “Città Di Parma”, ICH Humanitas Rozzano, Milan, Italy

Norimasa Nakamura, Ph.D, MD

Global Center for Medical Engineering and Informatics, Department of Orthopaedics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Vincenzo Candela, MD

Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Marcello Capella, MD

Orthopedic and Traumatologic Center – CTO City of Health and Science University Hospital, Turin, Italy

Paolo Capitani, MD

Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, ASST GOM Niguarda, Milan, Italy

Christian Carulli, MD

CTO, Orthopaedic and Traumatology, University Clinic, Florence, Italy

Simone Cerciello, MD

Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Nursing Home Villa Betania and University “La Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Policlinico A. Gemelli”, Rome, Italy

Gianluca Ciolli, MD

Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS – Sacred Heart Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Mauro Ciuffreda, MD

Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Colozza, MD

Vice President of the SIAGASCOT Elbow Committee, Director of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Unit of the Faenza Hospital, Faenza, Italy

Valentina R. Corbo, MD

Orthopedic surgeon, Foot and Ankle Specialistic Unit, IRCCS Galeazzi-Sant’ Ambrogio Hospital, Milan, Italy

Angelo De Carli, MD, Ph.D
Full Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Head of Orthopaedic Department at University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy

Francesca De Caro, MD

Specialist in Orthopedics,Knee and hip regenerative and prosthetic surgery, sports traumatology, Clinics Istituto di Cura Città di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Silvana De Giorgi, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Assistant Professor, Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience “Di BRAIN”, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Alessandro Del Monaco, MD

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Angelo Di Giunta, MD

Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Head of the Joint Surgery Functional Unit, Policlinico “G.B. Morgagni” Catania, Villa Serena, Catanzaro, COT Messina, Promedic Caltagirone, Italy

Berardo Di Matteo, MD

Centro per la ricostruzione articolare del ginocchio, IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

Lorenzo Alirio Diaz Balzani, MD

Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Augusto Ferrini, MD

Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Chiara Fossati, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, 1st Orthopaedic Clinic, ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milan, Italy

Francesco Franceschi, Ph.D

Full Professor, Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, San Pietro Fatebenefratelli Hospital, UniCamillus-Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy

Giorgio Franceschi, MD

Specialist for Orthopedics and Traumatology, Robotic Knee Replacement, Knee Surgery Departement, Abano Terme Hospital, Padova, Italy

Edoardo Giovannetti De Sanctis, MD

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, San Pietro Fatebenefratelli Hospital, UniCamillus-Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy

Francesco Giron, MD
Orthopedic Knee Surgeon, SOD General Traumatology and Orthopaedic Department AOU, Careggi, Florence, Italy

Giancarlo Giurazza, MD

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Pietro Gregori, MD

Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Alfredo Lamberti, MD

Istituto Fiorentino di Cura e Assistenza Villa Ulivella e Glicini, Florence, Villa Betania Giomi, Rome, Italy

Andrea Lisai, MD

Responsable of the Unità Funzionale di Chirurgia della Spalla Humanitas San Pio X, Milan, Italy

Vincenzo Madonna, MD

Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Humanitas Castelli Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

Alessio Maione, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, U.O.C. 1st Orthopaedic Clinic, ASST G. Pini-CTO, Milan, Italy

Fabrizio Matassi, MD
AOU Careggi, Orthopaedic Clinic University of Florence, Careggi Hospital Orthopaedic Clinic, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Barbara Melis, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Korian Kinetika Sardinia Nursing Home and Policlinico Città di Quartu, Quartu Sant’Elena, Italy

Simona Odella, MD

Medical Director, UOC Hand Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery, ASST G. Pini – CTO, Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Francesco Papalia, MD

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico, Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Francesco Rosario Parisi, MD

Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Maria Teresa Pereira Ruiz, MD

Physician Specialist in Physical Medicine and Sport Rehabilitation, Montallegro Clinic in Genoa, CSMA Center in Genoa and Riattiva Center in Lavagna, Italy

Giovanni Perricone, MD

Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Riccardo Ranieri, MD

Humanitas University, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

Fabrizio Russo, MD

UOC, Research Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Andrea Tecame, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Città di Parma Clinic, Parma, Italy

Guglielmo Torre, MD

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy-Villa Stuart Sport Clinic, FIFA Center of Excellence, Rome, Italy

Daniele Tradati, MD

Orthopaedic surgeon, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, IRCCS Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Francesco Traverso, MD

Head of the Fast track / Recovery Hip and Knee Prosthetic Surgery Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center-IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan

Alessandro Tripodo, MD

Orthopedic U.F., San Camillo Hospital, Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, Italy

Hanno Steckel, MD, Ph.D

MVZ VITALIS, Departement of Orthopedic Surgery, Berlin, Germany

Gianluca Vadalà, MD

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Francesca Vannini, MD

1st Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Clinic, Orthopaedic Institute Rizzoli, Bologna

Pierangelo Za, MD

Operative Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Andrea Zampoli, MD

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

Giacomo Zanon, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Specialist in Sports Medicine, Orthopaedic Clinic, Habilita Poliambulatorio San Marco, Bergamo, Italy

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Sabrina Verduci

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