The Clinical Consequences of Flexion Gap Asymmetry in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 235-240

  Romero, Jose ^a   Stähelin, Thomas ^a   Binkert, Chistoph ^a   Pfirrmann, Christian ^a   Hodler, Jurg ^a   Kessler, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

femoral component malrotation; flexion gap asymmetry; flexion instability; fluoroscopic stress radiography; total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HIP; HUMAN; MALE; STRESS RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846540188     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2006.04.024     Document Type: Article

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