Physiological joint line total knee arthroplasty designs are especially sensitive to rotational placement - A finite element analysis.

Mechanical and kinematical aligning techniques are the usual positioning methods during total knee arthroplasty. However, alteration of the physiological joint line and unbalanced medio-lateral load distribution are considered disadvantages in the mechanical and kinematical techniques, respectively....

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Main Authors: Philippe Moewis, Sara Checa, Ines Kutzner, Hagen Hommel, Georg N Duda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5798979?pdf=render