aDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Alfred Health Care, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

bRappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

cOrthopaedic Surgery Department, Rivka Ziv Medical Center, Zfat, Israel

dDivision of Orthopedic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

Financial Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

Joint first author Eran Keltz, Noam Reshef

Keltz and Reshef collected the patients and wrote the manuscript together, Botser and Keltz operated the patients and followed them, Itamar planned the surgeries and wrote the surgical technique section, Peskin provided scientific council and commentaries on the manuscript’s draft, Farouk assisted in follow up and data collection.

Ethical approval: In conjunction with our institute policy.

Informed consent: Yes.

Correspondence to Eran Keltz, MD 2/8 Brady Rd., Bentleigh East, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3165 Tel/Fax: +972-47772769; e-mail: [email protected].