Surgical difficulties for Total Knee Replacement in Stickler syndrome: A case report

Stickler syndrome is believed to be the most common connective tissue disorder in Europe and the USA. Severe osteoarthritis sets in at very early age in 3(rd )to 4(th )decade of life necessitating joint arthroplasty. This case report highlights the intraoperative surgical difficulties faced by the s...

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Autores principales: Verma, Gopalkrishna G, Zarough, Adel, Suraliwala, KH
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18816376
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-179
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author Verma, Gopalkrishna G
Zarough, Adel
Suraliwala, KH
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description Stickler syndrome is believed to be the most common connective tissue disorder in Europe and the USA. Severe osteoarthritis sets in at very early age in 3(rd )to 4(th )decade of life necessitating joint arthroplasty. This case report highlights the intraoperative surgical difficulties faced by the surgeon and the planning needed for the operation.
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spelling pubmed-25649062008-10-09 Surgical difficulties for Total Knee Replacement in Stickler syndrome: A case report Verma, Gopalkrishna G Zarough, Adel Suraliwala, KH Cases J Case Report Stickler syndrome is believed to be the most common connective tissue disorder in Europe and the USA. Severe osteoarthritis sets in at very early age in 3(rd )to 4(th )decade of life necessitating joint arthroplasty. This case report highlights the intraoperative surgical difficulties faced by the surgeon and the planning needed for the operation. BioMed Central 2008-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2564906/ /pubmed/18816376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-179 Text en Copyright © 2008 Verma et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Verma, Gopalkrishna G
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Suraliwala, KH
Surgical difficulties for Total Knee Replacement in Stickler syndrome: A case report
title Surgical difficulties for Total Knee Replacement in Stickler syndrome: A case report
title_full Surgical difficulties for Total Knee Replacement in Stickler syndrome: A case report
title_fullStr Surgical difficulties for Total Knee Replacement in Stickler syndrome: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Surgical difficulties for Total Knee Replacement in Stickler syndrome: A case report
title_short Surgical difficulties for Total Knee Replacement in Stickler syndrome: A case report
title_sort surgical difficulties for total knee replacement in stickler syndrome: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18816376
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-179
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