title: Late failure of the Manchester prosthesis. Its relationship to the disease process.
abstract: The results of thirty-one Manchester knee arthroplasties performed on twenty-eight patients are reviewed. There were sixteen patients with rheumatoid arthritis all of whom were satisfactory at the time of follow-up. Of the fifteen patients with osteoarthritis over half the arthroplasties failed after between twelve and thirty-six months. We suggest that resurfacing arthroplasty of the knee using the Manchester prosthesis should be used only for rheumatoid patients.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000601:surgery*; D001174:Arthrodesis; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007720:Knee Prosthesis / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011859:Radiography