Human Knee Joint Anatomy Revisited: Morphometry in the Light of Sex-Specific Total Knee Arthroplasty

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 346-353

  Dargel, Jens ^a   Michael, Joern W P ^a   Feiser, Janna ^a   Ivo, Roland ^a   Koebke, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Arthroplasty; Femur; Knee; Sex differences; Tibia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE; LEG LENGTH; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TISSUE SECTION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CADAVER; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIBIA;

EID: 79953034537     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2009.12.019     Document Type: Article

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