Medial femoral head border is a reliable and reproducible reference for axis determination for femoral component of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.

PURPOSE: The femoral component should be implanted parallel to the mechanical axis in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. It was hypothesised that a line between medial femoral condyle centres and medial border of femoral head will be parallel to the mechanical axis; this study set out to examine th...

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Main Authors: Hiranaka, T, Pandit, H, Gill, H, Hida, Y, Uemoto, H, Doita, M, Tsuji, M, Murray, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013