Step-by-step measurements of soft tissue balancing during total knee arthroplasty for patients with varus knees

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 313-320

  Yagishita, Kazuyoshi ^b   Muneta, Takeshi ^a   Ikeda, Hiroo ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Joint gap measurement; Soft tissue balance; Step by step procedure; Total knee arthroplasty; Varus knee

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SOFT TISSUE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARUS KNEE;

EID: 0037967279     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/arth.2003.50088     Document Type: Article

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