Soft tissue release in total knee arthroplasty: Cadaver study using knees without deformities

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 366, Issue , 1999, Pages 264-273

  Matsueda, Munenori ^a   Gengerke, Todd R ^a   Murphy, Mary ^a   Lew, William D ^a   Gustilo, Ramon B ^a  

^a Midwest Orthopedic and Minneapolis Medical Research Foundations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT STABILITY; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE LIGAMENT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 0032870385     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199909000-00034     Document Type: Article

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