Does total knee joint replacement with the soft tissue balancing surgical technique maintain the natural joint line?

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 480-486

  Wyss, Tobias F ^a   Schuster, A J ^a   Munger P ^b   Pfluger, D ^c   Wehrli, U ^a  

^a Spital Bern Ziegler   (Switzerland)

^b Mathys Ltd Bettlach   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arthroplasty; Joint line; Knee; Ligament balancing; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BONE DESTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROSTHESIS; OSTEOMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA OSTEOTOMY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALGUS KNEE; VARUS KNEE;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746868967     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-006-0171-0     Document Type: Article

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