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Development of a Pneumatic Tensioning Device for Gap Measurement during Total Knee Arthroplasty

BACKGROUND: Despite the importance of soft tissue balancing during total knee arthroplasty (TKA), all estimating techniques are dependent on a surgeon's manual distraction force or subjective feeling based on experience. We developed a new device for dynamic gap balancing, which can offer const...

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Autores principales: Kwak, Dai-Soon, Kong, Chae-Gwan, Han, Seung-Ho, Kim, Dong-Hyun, In, Yong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Orthopaedic Association 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22949949
http://dx.doi.org/10.4055/cios.2012.4.3.188