title: Surgical Pearls in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Lifetime of Lessons Learned.
abstract: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has evolved into a very successful procedure to relieve pain and improve function in the patient with advanced arthritis. Both short- and long-term outcomes are dependent on optimal surgical technique. In this article, I share a few of the many lessons learned over more than 40 years of experience performing TKA regarding exposure, alignment, bone preparation, correction of deformity, and prosthetic implantation.
authors.affiliation: Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. rdscottmd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Richard D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D007720:Knee Prosthesis; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000601:surgery*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods