Clinical outcomes of patients with residual medial osteophytes following mobile bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The surgical technique used in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is crucial for achieving good short and long term clinical outcomes. The medial mobile bearing UKA has shown excellent clinical outcomes and survivorship. But release of the medial collateral ligament during entering joint is cause of mobile bearing dislocation in short term outcomes and lateral compartment osteoarthritis may occur in the mid to long term outcomes. Removing all osteophytes at the time of UKA is sometime impossible due to their large size and extend to the inferior part of medial tibial plateau and removing them completely my result in release of the MCL. But no data exist on clinical outcomes in such patients.

Methods

We conducted a prospective study from 2010 to 2015 of pat

SUBMITTER: Pongcharoen B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181378 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature