Comparison between two computer-assisted total knee arthroplasty: Gap-balancing versus measured resection technique

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1304-1310

  Tigani, Domenico ^a   Sabbioni, G ^a   Ayad, R Ben ^a   Filanti, M ^a   Rani, N ^a   Del Piccolo, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gap balancing; Measured resection; Navigation; TKA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIBIA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIBIA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956870276     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1124-2     Document Type: Article

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