title: Tissue sparing surgery in knee reconstruction: unicompartmental (UKA), patellofemoral (PFA), UKA + PFA, bi-unicompartmental (Bi-UKA) arthroplasties.
abstract: Recently mini-invasive joint replacement has become one of the hottest topics in the orthopaedic world. However, these terms have been improperly misunderstood as a "key-hole" surgery where traditional components are implanted with shorter surgical approaches, with few benefits and several possible dangers. Small implants as unicompartmental knee prostheses, patellofemoral prostheses and bi-unicompartmental knee prostheses might represent real less invasive procedures: Tissue sparing surgery, the Italian way to minimally invasive surgery (MIS). According to their experience the authors go through this real tissue sparing surgery not limited only to a small incision, but where the surgeons can respect the physiological joint biomechanics.
authors.affiliation: Ist Orthopaedic Department, Centro Traumatologico ed Ortopedico (C.T.O.), I.C.P., Via Bignami 1, 20100, Milan, Italy, norbconf@tin.it.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Confalonieri
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Manzotti
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Montironi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pullen