Alignment in total knee arthroplasty, still more questions than answers...

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2191-2193

  Thienpont, Emmanuel ^a   Bellemans, Johan ^b   Victor, Jan ^c   Becker, Roland ^d  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d Hospital Brandenburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BONE MALFORMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BONE MALALIGNMENT; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84884530514     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-013-2622-9     Document Type: Editorial

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