Importance of the lateral anatomic tibial slope as a guide to the tibial cut in total knee arthroplasty in Japanese patients

Journal of Orthopaedic Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 42-47

  Kuwano, Takashi ^a   Urabe, Ken ^b   Miura, Hiromasa ^a   Nagamine, Ryuji ^a   Matsuda, Shuichi ^a   Satomura, Masatoshi ^a   Sasaki, Toshiaki ^a   Sakai, Shuuji ^c   Honda, Hiroshi ^c   Iwamoto, Yukihide ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Osteoarthritis; Posterior tibial slope; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE RESECTION; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; JAPAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MORPHOLOGY; SIMULATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 19944432952     PISSN: 09492658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00776-004-0855-7     Document Type: Article

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