The role of varus and valgus alignment in knee osteoarthritis
β Scribed by Leena Sharma
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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## Abstract ## Objective To test the hypotheses that lateral patellofemoral (PF) osteoarthritis (OA) progression is more common than medial PF OA progression, that varus alignment increases the likelihood of medial PF OA progression, and that valgus alignment increases the likelihood of lateral PF
## Abstract ## Objective Although knee malalignment is assumed to correlate with knee osteoarthritis (OA), it is still unknown whether malalignment precedes the development of OA or whether it is a result of OA. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between malalignment and the deve