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Plate-related results of opening wedge high tibial osteotomy with a carbon fiber reinforced poly-ether-ether-ketone (CF-PEEK) plate fixation: a retrospective case series of 346 knees

BACKGROUND: While open wedge high tibial osteotomy (owHTO) is an established standard procedure to treat medial osteoarthritis of the knee in combination with varus deformity, it bears the risk of postoperative hardware failures and lateral cortical hinge fractures. This in turn can lead to an accel...

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Autores principales: Hartz, Claudia, Wischatta, Ralph, Klostermeier, Eckhardt, Paetzold, Malte, Gerlach, Klaus, Pries, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6935191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31881906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-019-1514-1