Better outcomes and reduced failures for arthroplasty over osteotomy for advanced compartmental knee osteoarthritis in patients older than 50 years

Better outcomes and reduced failures for arthroplasty over osteotomy for advanced compartmental knee osteoarthritis in patients older than 50 years

Abstract Background Both compartmental knee arthroplasty (CKA) and open-wedge high tibial osteotomy (HTO) may be used to treat patients older than 50 years of age with advanced compartmental osteoarthritis (OA) secondary to leg axis deformities. A meta-analysis was conducted to clarify the role of o...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Filippo Migliorini, Arne Driessen, Francesco Oliva, Gayle D. Maffulli, Markus Tingart, Nicola Maffulli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-11-01
Series:Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
Subjects:
Compartmental knee osteoarthritis
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty
Open-wedge tibial osteotomy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13018-020-02079-6

Internet

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13018-020-02079-6

Similar Items