Development of a force-determining tensor to measure "physiologic knee ligament gaps" without bone resection using a total knee arthroplasty approach

Journal of Orthopaedic Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-63

  Nowakowski, Andrej Maria ^a,b   Majewski, Martin ^a   Müller Gerbl, Magdalena ^b   Valderrabano, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BONE RESECTION; BONE SCREW; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; FORCE DETERMINING TENSOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT SURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PATELLA DISLOCATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 79953297683     PISSN: 09492658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00776-010-0015-1     Document Type: Article

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