Journal article
The Influence of the Posterior Cruciate Ligament and Component Design on Joint Line Position After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty
Abstract
This study investigated the change in joint line position after posterior cruciate-retaining and posterior-stabilized total knee arthroplasty with AMK (DePuy, Warsaw, Ind) and Genesis II (Smith & Nephew, Memphis, Tenn) components. A total of 200 primary total knee arthroplasty patients were randomly selected so as to have 50 patients with each of the 4 prosthesis types. Joint line position was measured on preoperative and 2 year postoperative …
Authors
Snider MG; MacDonald SJ
Journal
The Journal of Arthroplasty, Vol. 24, No. 7, pp. 1093–1098
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 2009
DOI
10.1016/j.arth.2008.08.009
ISSN
0883-5403