Total knee arthroplasty using patient-specific guides: Is there a learning curve?

Knee

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 613-617

  Chinnappa, Jason ^a   Chen, Darren B ^a,b   Harris, Ian A ^c   MacDessi, Samuel J ^a,b  

^a Canterbury Hospital   (Australia)

^b St George Private Hospital   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alignment; Knee arthroplasty; Learning curve; Patient specific guides; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FEMORAL CORONAL ANGLE; FEMORAL ROTATION ALIGNMENT; FEMORAL ROTATION ANGLE; FEMORAL SAGITTAL ANGLE; HIP-KNEE ANGLE; HUMAN; KNEE IMPLANT; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LEARNING CURVE; LOWER EXTREMITY DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC MANIPULATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT-SPECIFIC GUIDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; PROSTHETIC ALIGNMENT; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RELIABILITY; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STIFF KNEE; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIBIAL CORONAL ANGLE; TIBIAL SAGITTAL ANGLE; TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; VERY ELDERLY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; EDUCATION; FOLLOW UP; KNEE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; KNEE REPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84973409230     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: 18735800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2015.03.002     Document Type: Article

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