Measuring leg length and offset with an imageless navigation system during total hip arthroplasty: Is it really accurate?

International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 192-197

  Renkawitz, Tobias ^a   Schuster, Tibor ^b   Herold, Thomas ^c   Goessmann, Holger ^c   Sendtner, Ernst ^a   Grifka, Joachim ^a   Kalteis, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer assisted surgery; Hip arthroplasty; Minimally invasive; Total hip replacement; Total joint replacement

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HIP PROSTHESES; ORTHOPEDICS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; HIP ARTHROPLASTIES; HIP REPLACEMENTS; LEG LENGTH; MEASUREMENT ALGORITHMS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY; TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT; TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGELESS NAVIGATION SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LEG LENGTH; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RELIABILITY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

EID: 67649442555     PISSN: 14785951     EISSN: 1478596X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcs.250     Document Type: Article

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