Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA
Unrestricted kinematic alignment in varus total knee arthroplasty outperforms mechanical alignment in CPAK I phenotype, but yields comparable outcomes in CPAK IV: A retrospective analysis from the FP-UCBM Knee Study Group.
Edoardo Franceschetti, Giancarlo Giurazza, Stefano Campi, Michael T Hirschmann, Kristian Samuelsson, Andrea Tanzilli, Pietro Gregori, Michele Paciotti, Biagio Zampogna, Rocco Papalia
Published: 202510.1002/ksa.70084
Abstract
PURPOSE: To compare clinical outcomes in varus-aligned patients undergoing cruciate-retaining total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with mechanical alignment (MA) versus unrestricted kinematic alignment (KA). The hypothesis was that KA would yield superior o…
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