Opinions among Danish knee surgeons about indications to perform total knee replacement showed considerable variation

Danish Medical Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Troelsen, Anders ^a   Schrøder, Henrik ^b   Husted, Henrik ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; JOINT DEGENERATION; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; QUESTIONNAIRE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGE; DENMARK; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BODY MASS INDEX; DENMARK; EXERCISE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84873269761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22451919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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