Soft tissue balancing in varus total knee arthroplasty: an algorithmic approach
โ Scribed by Peter C. M. Verdonk; Jerome Pernin; Alban Pinaroli; Tarik Ait Si Selmi; Philippe Neyret
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 300 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0942-2056
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## Abstract ## Background One of the goals of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is to balance the loads between the compartments of the knee. An instrumented load cell that measures compartment loads in real time is utilized to evaluate conventional, qualitative methods of achieving this balance. ##
The existence of soft tissue contractures in arthritis and the presence of soft tissue imbalance at the time of a total knee arthroplastr causing deformi in the coronal plane has been debated extensively. This discussion was based on the use of instrumentation which tensed the medial and lateral sof