Clinical and radiological outcomes of fixed- versus mobile-bearing total knee replacement: A meta-analysis

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-340

  Smith, Toby O ^a   Ejtehadi, Farshid ^a   Nichols, Rachel ^b   Davies, Leigh ^a   Donell, Simon T ^a   Hing, Caroline B ^c  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Norfolk Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c WATFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bearing; Knee replacement; Meta analysis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PROSTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; WEIGHT BEARING;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77951296421     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0909-7     Document Type: Article

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