Total knee arthroplasty in severe valgus knee deformity: Comparison of a standard medial parapatellar approach combined with tibial tubercle osteotomy

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1834-1842

  Nikolopoulos, D D ^a,c   Polyzois, I ^a   Apostolopoulos, A P ^a   Rossas, C ^a   Moutsios Rentzos, A ^b   Michos, I V ^a  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Lateral approach; Medial parapatellar capsulotomy; Tibial tubercle osteotomy; Total knee arthroplasty; Valgus knee

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054101300     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1474-4     Document Type: Article

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