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The purpose of this study is to evaluate its effectiveness and whether there are statistical differences in treatment between different interventions based on published RCT studies.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Following the PRISMA-NMA checklist, Medline, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library databases were searched and collected related RCT studies. The sources were searched from inception up to October 30, 2020. The primary outcomes including the rate of radiographic progression and conversion to THA and the secondary outcome -Harris Hip Scores (HHS) were extracted and compared in a Network meta-analysis.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Seventeen RCT studies involving 784 patients (918 hips) with seven interventions including CD (core decompression), CD\u2009+\u2009BG (bone graft), CD\u2009+\u2009TI (tantalum rod implantation), CD\u2009+\u2009CT (Cell therapy), CD\u2009+\u2009BG\u2009+\u2009CT, VBG (vascularized bone graft), and nonsurgical or conservative treatment for ONFH were evaluated. In the radiographic progression results, CD\u2009+\u2009CT showed a relatively better result than CD, CD\u2009+\u2009BG and non-surgical treatment, the surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA) plot displayed that CD\u2009+\u2009CT (96.4%) was the best, followed by CD (64.1%).In conversion to THA results, there were no significant differences between the JPT methods and non-surgical treatment. In HHS, there was also no significant difference, other than CD\u2009+\u2009BG showed a statistical difference than non-surgical treatment only in terms of Cis, but the SUCRA was highest in non-surgical treatment (80.5%) followed by CD\u2009+\u2009CT (72.8%).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>This Net-work meta-analysis demonstrated that there was no statistical difference in the outcome of radiographic progression and conversion to THA, also in HHS, other than CD\u2009+\u2009CT showed a relatively superior result in radiographic progression than nonsurgical treatment, namely, it\u2019s maybe an effective method for delaying disease progression or reducing disease development based on current evidence.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12891-021-04808-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,15]],"date-time":"2021-11-15T13:02:59Z","timestamp":1636981379000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Efficacy of various core decompression techniques versus non-operative treatment for osteonecrosis of the femoral head: a systemic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Quanzhe","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenlai","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jae Hyup","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,15]]},"reference":[{"issue":"8","key":"4808_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"590","DOI":"10.5312\/wjo.v6.i8.590","volume":"6","author":"J Moya Angeler","year":"2015","unstructured":"Moya Angeler J, Gianakos AL, Villa JC, Ni A, Lane JM. 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