Ligament balancing in TKA: Evaluation of a force-sensing device and the influence of patellar eversion and ligament release

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1709-1715

  Crottet, Denis ^a,b   Kowal, Jens ^a   Sarfert, Sven A ^a   Maeder, Thomas ^b   Bleuler, Hannes ^b   Nolte, Lutz P ^a   Dürselen, Lutz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Force sensing device; Ligament balancing; Ligament release; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FORCE MEASUREMENT; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LOADS (FORCES); PROSTHETICS;

FORCE-SENSING DEVICE; LIGAMENT BALANCING; LIGAMENT RELEASE; TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT STABILITY; KNEE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PATELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATELLA; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34247880161     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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