title: Management of selected problems in revision knee arthroplasty.
abstract: In discussing revision arthroplasty, understanding the failure mode is essential to success. In general there are five major categories that one must address in assessing the failed knee replacement: Infection, mechanical problems, extensor mechanism dysfunction, fractures adjacent to the components, and skin problems. These five areas are discussed in this article.
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alexiades
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sands
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: W N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007720:Knee Prosthesis; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014945:Wound Healing