Bone landmarks are more reliable than tensioned gaps in TKA component alignment

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 462, Issue , 2007, Pages 137-142

  Hanada, Hirofumi ^a   Whiteside, Leo A ^a   Steiger, Jerry ^a   Dyer, Paul ^a   Naito, Masatoshi ^b  

^a Missouri Bone and Joint Center   (United States)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE RESECTION; BONE STRESS; CADAVER; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FEMUR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANT; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE INSTABILITY; LIGAMENT; PATELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VALGUS KNEE; VARUS KNEE; BONE MALFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE DISLOCATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; WEIGHT BEARING;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BONE MALALIGNMENT; CADAVER; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE DISLOCATION; KNEE JOINT; PATELLA; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; TIBIA; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 34548439870     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e3180dc92e7     Document Type: Article

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