Successful treatment of a habitual patellar dislocation after a total knee arthroplasty with a closing-wedge distal femoral varus osteotomy and medial patello-femoral ligament reconstruction

Successful treatment of a habitual patellar dislocation after a total knee arthroplasty with a closing-wedge distal femoral varus osteotomy and medial patello-femoral ligament reconstruction

Abstract A 68-year-old female suffering from habitual patellar dislocations following a mal-positioned total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was successfully treated with a biplanar closed wedge distal femoral osteotomy (CWDFO) and medial patello-femoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction. To the best of our kn...

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Main Authors: Hidetomo Saito, Kimio Saito, Yoichi Shimada, Toshiaki Yamamura, Takahiro Sato, Koji Nozaka, Hiroaki Kijima, Masashi Fujii, Tetsuya Kawano, Naohisa Miyakoshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-09-01
Series:Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics
Subjects:
Mal-alignment
Revision arthroplasty
Anterior knee pain
Patella instability
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40634-020-00281-3

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