Changes in patellar alignment after total knee arthroplasty

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-104

  Fukagawa, Shingo ^a   Matsuda, Shuichi ^a   Mizu uchi, Hideki ^a   Miura, Hiromasa ^a   Okazaki, Ken ^a   Iwamoto, Yukihide ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Patellar alignment; Postoperative change; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650788054     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1164-7     Document Type: Article

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