Long term evaluation of high tibial valgus osteotomy

✍ Scribed by J. R. Valenti; R. Calvo; R. Lopez; J. Cañadell

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 566 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0341-2695
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00182642

✦ Synopsis

S u m m a r y . We present a long term evaluation o f 100 high valgus tibial osteotomies with a mean follow up o f 11 years. Knees with slight or moderate osteoarthritis had the best results. Slight overcorrection was beneficial, but gross overcorrection was not. There were f e w complications and the overall long term results were good.

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