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Averaging rotational landmarks during total knee arthroplasty reduces component malrotation caused by femoral asymmetry

BACKGROUND: Femoral component malrotation is a common cause of patient dissatisfaction after total knee arthroplasty. The sulcus line (SL) is more accurate than Whiteside’s line as it corrects for variation in the coronal orientation of the groove. The hypothesis is that averaging the SL and posteri...

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Autores principales: Chao, Tat Woon, Geraghty, Liam, Dimitriou, Pandelis, Talbot, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5429545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28499396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-017-0575-2