Anterior knee pain after total knee arthroplasty: Does it correlate with patellar blood flow?

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1453-1459

  Kohl, Sandro ^a,b   Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios S ^a   Hartel, Maximilian ^a   Kohlhof, Hendrik ^a   Roeder, Christoph ^a   Eggli, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Dr Robert Mathys Foundation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anterior knee pain; Patellar blood flow; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATELLA; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATELLA; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 80051923702     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1418-z     Document Type: Article

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