Causes of failure and etiology of painful primary total knee arthroplasty

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1418-1432

  Seil, Romain ^a   Pape, Dietrich ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Luxembourg Clinique d'Eich   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Complication; Instability; Loosening; Pain; Patellofemoral; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051931945     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1631-9     Document Type: Article

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