Alignment for total knee replacement: A comparison of kinematic axis versus mechanical axis techniques. A cadaver study

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2249-2253

  Nogler, Michael ^a   Hozack, William ^b   Collopy, Dermot ^c   Mayr, Eckart ^a   Deirmengian, Gregory ^b   Sekyra, Kathrin ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Western Orthopaedic Clinic   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINEMATIC ALIGNMENT; MALE; MECHANICAL ALIGNMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VALGUS KNEE; VARUS KNEE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIBIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FITTING; ROTATION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876550396     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-012-1642-2     Document Type: Article

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