The relationship between constitutional alignment and varus osteoarthritis of the knee

Purpose The role of neutral alignment in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) on short- and long-term outcomes has become controversial. Based on the concept of constitutional varus, it has been suggested that under-correction in TKA in a varus osteoarthritis (OA) population might lead to better clinical o...

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Published in:	Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA Vol. 25; no. 9; pp. 2873 - 2879
Main Authors:	Vandekerckhove, Pieter-Jan T. K., Matlovich, Nicholas, Teeter, Matthew G., MacDonald, Steven J., Howard, James L., Lanting, Brent A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.09.2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects:	Aged Alignment Arthritis Arthroplasty (knee) Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee Biocompatibility Bone Malalignment - diagnostic imaging Deformation Female Humans Joint surgery Knee Knee Joint - diagnostic imaging Knee Joint - physiopathology Knee Joint - surgery Male Males Medicine Medicine & Public Health Men Middle Aged Orthopedics Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis, Knee - surgery Radiographs Radiography Surgical implants Knee Constitutional varus Coronal plane alignment Varus Osteoarthritis
ISSN:	0942-2056, 1433-7347
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