Unicompartmental knee replacement.
The results of unicompartmental knee replacement in a series of 83 knees were reviewed for the period of 1970 to 1978; 30.1 percent achieved good or excellent results; 48.2 percent fair or poor results; 21.7 percent were failures. The vast majority of failures and poor results were due to technical errors. Only 9.6 percent of the nonoperated contralateral compartments required further surgery.
D000368:Aged; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D007720:Knee Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography