If you have severe arthritis pain, your doctor may suggest that you have joint fusion surgery (also called “arthrodesis”). This procedure fuses, or “welds,” together the two bones that ...

We conducted a retrospective review of 26 patients that had failed total knee replacements treated by knee arthrodesis at a single institution over a 10 year period from January 1981 to December 1991.

The rate of pseudoarthrosis after ankle arthrodesis has been reported to range from 0% [4] to 41%. [5] In a study of 78 ankle fusions, Frey and associates [6] found a nonunion rate of 41%.