Closing or Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy: Watch Out for the Slope

Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-45

  Hohmann, Erik ^a,b   Bryant, Adam ^c  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Queensland Government   (Australia)

^c Faculty of Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

closing wedge osteotomy; open wedge tibial osteotomy; posterior tibial slope

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE INSTABILITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA OSTEOTOMY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; VARUS DEFORMITY; VARUS KNEE;

EID: 33846652211     PISSN: 10486666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.oto.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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