The oblique high tibial osteotomy technique without bone removal and with rigid blade plate fixation for the treatment of medial osteoarthritis of the varus knee: Medium and long-term results

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 940-947

  Polyzois, Dimitrios ^a   Stavlas, Panagiotis ^b,d   Polyzois, Vassilios ^a   Zacharakis, Nikolaos ^c  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blade plate fixation; High tibial osteotomy; Mechanical axis; Unicompartmental osteoarthritis; Varus knee

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BONE PLATES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOINT DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OSTEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749366183     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-006-0053-6     Document Type: Article

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