Computer-assisted surgery improves rotational positioning of the femoral component but not the tibial component in total knee arthroplasty

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3127-3134

  Hernandez Vaquero, Daniel ^a,b   Noriega Fernandez, Alfonso ^a   Fernandez Carreira, Jose Manuel ^a   Fernandez Simon, Jose Manuel ^a   Llorens de los Rios, Jimena ^a  

^a Hospital St Agustin   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alignment; Femoral rotation; Navigation; Tibial rotation; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

AGED; BODY POSTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROTATION; TIBIA;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTATION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84911383087     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-014-3233-9     Document Type: Article

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