The impact of a high tibial valgus osteotomy and unicondylar medial arthroplasty on the treatment for knee osteoarthritis: A meta-analysis

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-112

  Spahn, Gunter ^a   Hofmann, Gunther O ^b   von Engelhardt, Lars Victor ^c   Li, Mengxia ^d   Neubauer, Henning ^d   Klinger, Hans Michael ^e  

^a Center of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Eisenach   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Knee; Meta analysis; Osteoarthritis; Osteotomy; Unicondylar arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOTOMY; REOPERATION; STATISTICS; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; HEMIARTHROPLASTY; KNEE JOINT; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OSTEOTOMY; REOPERATION; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871922041     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1751-2     Document Type: Article

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