Soft tissue balancing: The knee
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Leo A. Whiteside
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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During flexion of the normal knee, the tibia stays within a plane that is aligned anterior-to-posterior and passes near the center of the hip, knee, and ankle. To align the knee during total knee arthroplasty, the distal femoral cuts are aligned in 5Β°to 7Β°valgus to the long axis of the femur, and th