title: The treatment of choice in osteoarthritis of the knee.
abstract: Up to the present, no prosthesis has functionally matched a normal, living knee. On the contrary, in many instances, well-planned osteotomies have restored degenerative knees to normal function, superseding the use of arthroplasty. The questions are: What are the limits of these procedures and what can be expected from them?
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000601:surgery*; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods; D013977:Tibia / Q000601:surgery