Little clinical advantage of computer-assisted navigation over conventional instrumentation in primary total knee arthroplasty at early follow-up

Knee

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 237-245

  Cheng, Tao ^a   Pan, Xiao Yun ^a,b   Mao, Xin ^a   Zhang, Guo You ^b,c   Zhang, Xian Long ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL AND YUYING CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer assisted surgery; Evidence based medicine; Joint arthroplasty; Meta analysis; Navigation; Total knee replacement

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE SOCIETY SCORE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; NERVE INJURY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; HUMANS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861707581     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: 18735800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2011.10.001     Document Type: Review

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