Preliminary results of a new surgical technique in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using the native ligament tension for femoral implant positioning in varus osteoarthritis
- 6 June 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery
- Vol. 136 (7), 991-997
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-016-2480-2
Abstract
Individual implant alignment in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has seen growing interest over the past years. This study therefore aimed to develop a surgical technique for implant alignment based on native ligament tension, and to present the results obtained using this technique.Keywords
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