Nonagenarians qualify for total knee arthroplasty: a report on 329 patients from the Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Register 2000–2016
Background and purpose — The nonagenarian (those aged 90 years and older) population is expected to double in the next 20 years. This demographic age quake may have a significant impact on the incidence of total knee arthroplasty (TKA), although current literature provides limited data. We examined...
Main Authors: | Erdem A Sezgin, Otto Robertsson, Annette W-Dahl, Lars Lidgren |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2019-01-01
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Series: | Acta Orthopaedica |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17453674.2018.1530173 |
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