What would you do? Case challenges in knee surgery.
These knee arthroplasty cases were presented to a panel of surgeon and they represent classic clinical problems: (1) indications for unicompartmental arthroplasty; (2) total knee arthroplasty after a high tibial osteotomy complicated by infection and extensor mechanism rupture; (3) neuropathic arthropathy; (4) posttraumatic osteoarthritis with extraarticular deformity; (5) degenerative arthritis in the young patient; (6) osteoarthritis with a valgus deformity, fixed flexion contracture, degenerative scoliosis, and leg length discrepancy.
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1520 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
Kelly G
KG
Vince
Hugh U
HU
Cameron
David S
DS
Hungerford
Richard S
RS
Laskin
Chitranjan S
CS
Ranawat
Giles R
GR
Scuderi
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001177:Arthropathy, Neurogenic / Q000601:surgery; D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016916:Joint Deformities, Acquired / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000601:surgery; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation; D013396:Suction