Combining different rotational alignment axes with navigation may reduce the need for lateral retinacular release in total knee arthroplasty

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1595-1600

  Cinotti, Gianluca ^a   Ripani, Francesca R ^a   Sessa, Pasquale ^a   Giannicola, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EPICONDYLAR AXIS; FEMALE; FEMOROPATELLAR ALIGNMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE DISEASE; LATERAL PATELLA RETINACULUM RELEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATELLA FRACTURE; PATELLA TRACKING; POSTERIOR CONDYLAR AXIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RANGE OF MOTION; RATING SCALE; ROTATION; ROTATIONAL ALIGNMENT AXES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TOURNIQUET; VALGUS DEFORMITY; VARUS DEFORMITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BONE MALALIGNMENT; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATELLA; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTATION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84866731850     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-012-1523-8     Document Type: Article

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