Reliability of navigated lower limb alignment in high tibial osteotomies

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2179-2186

  Goleski, Patrick ^a,b   Warkentine, Blaine ^a,c   Lo, Darrick ^a   Gyuricza, Cassie ^a   Kendoff, Daniel ^a,d   Pearle, Andrew D ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BrainLAB Inc   (United States)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Computer assisted surgery; High tibial osteotomy; Navigation; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TIBIA OSTEOTOMY; TIBIA TORSION;

HUMANS; LEG; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOTOMY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIBIA;

EID: 55149090104     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546508319314     Document Type: Article

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