total knee arthroplasty

The native coronal orientation of tibial plateaus may limit the indications to perform a kinematic aligned total knee arthroplasty

Purpose: To investigate the coronal alignment of tibial plateaus in normal and osteoarthritic knees and to simulate the effects of a tibial cut performed in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using a kinematic alignment technique with standard instrumentation.

Revisiting the tibial crest as reference for the mechanical alignment of the tibial component in total knee arthroplasty: a cadaveric study on Caucasian tibiae

Purpose: The accuracy of the tibial crest (TC) in guiding the mechanical alignment of the tibial component in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been investigated in a few studies on Asian patients. No study analyzed the anatomical variants of the TC. We analyzed the morphological types of the TC in cadaveric tibiae of Caucasian subjects and assessed whether the TC may be considered an accurate guide for the mechanical alignment of the tibial component in TKA.

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