Letter to the editor: Computer-assisted navigation increases precision of component placement in total knee arthroplasty

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 454, Issue , 2007, Pages 281-282

  Pandher, D S ^a   Oh, K J ^a   Boaparai, R S ^b   Josan, G S ^b  

^a Konkuk University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; FEMUR; FEMUR SHAFT; IMPLANTATION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; PROSTHESIS FITTING; RADIOGRAPHY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33846112592     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000246562.50467.3d     Document Type: Letter

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