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Clinical predictors of elective total joint replacement in persons with end-stage knee osteoarthritis

BACKGROUND: Arthritis is a leading cause of disability in the United States. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has become the gold standard to manage the pain and disability associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Although more than 400 000 primary TKA surgeries are performed each year in the United S...

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Autores principales: Zeni, Joseph A, Axe, Michael J, Snyder-Mackler, Lynn
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20459622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-11-86