High tibial valgus osteotomy in unicompartmental medial osteoarthritis of the knee: A retrospective follow-up study over 13-21 years

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 122-127

  Schallberger, Alex ^a   Jacobi, Matthias ^a   Wahl, Peter ^a   Maestretti, Gianluca ^a   Jakob, Roland P ^b  

^a Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^b Spital Tafers ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

High tibial osteotomy; Knee osteoarthritis; Long term; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650763536     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1256-4     Document Type: Article

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