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No patella resurfacing total knee arthroplasty leads to reduction in the thickness of patellar cartilage to less than half within 5 years: a quantitative longitudinal evaluation using MRI

PURPOSE: Patellar resurfacing in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) remains controversial as recent meta-analyses have not shown its clear superiority; however, most authors recommend it because it is associated with less frequent anterior knee pain and need for reoperation. We aimed to clarify the chang...

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Autores principales: Sato, Dai, Inoue, Masayuki, Sasaki, Takuro, Uchida, Jun, Onodera, Tomohiro, Kondo, Eiji, Iwasaki, Norimasa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34817721
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40634-021-00425-z