Knee arthroplasty /
The number of patients submitted each year to knee replacement surgery has constantly risen, until it has even exceeded that of patients submitted to hip replacement. The development of studies on biomechanics, on prosthetic design, and on materials used, has led to further improvement of implants....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wien ; New York :
Springer,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Biomechanics: Knee Biomechanics and Prosthetic Design; Prosthetic Design and Patellofemoral Function
- Surgical Technique: Preoperative Planning and Prosthetic Selection; Surgical Approaches; Soft-Tissue; Patellofemoral Joint; Bone Grafting in Primary and Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty; Total Knee Arthroplasty Following High Tibial Osteotomy; Total Knee Arthroplasty in the Stiff Knee
- Prosthetic selection: Unicompartimental Knee Arthroplasty; The Posterior Cruciate Ligament and Total Knee Arthroplasty; Posterior Cruciate Ligament-Substituting Total Knee Arthroplasty: Rationale and Results; Meniscal-Bearing Knee Arthroplasty; Total Internal Constraint Prosthesis
- Complications: Wound Complications in Total Knee Arthroplasty; Mechanical Loosening of Total Knee Arthroplasty; Treatment of the Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty; Periprosthetic Fractures; Prophylaxis of Deep Vein Thrombosis After Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Miscellanea: Blood Management in Knee Arthroplasty; Rehabilitation Following Total Knee Arthroplasty; Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty.