The Effectiveness of Sequential Medial Soft Tissue Release on Coronal Alignment in Total Knee Arthroplasty. Using a Computer Navigation Model

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 428-434

  Luring, Christian ^a,b   Hüfner, Tobias ^b   Perlick, Lars ^a   Bäthis, Holger ^a   Krettek, Christian ^b   Grifka, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

computer assisted surgery; ligament tension; navigation; soft tissue release; total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; SOFT TISSUE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT, KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33646030257     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2005.05.031     Document Type: Article

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