Patellofemoral partial knee replacement is a viable option for patients with kneecap OA

 
 
Kneecap Reconstruction a Viable Option (written by Bilione Young @ OTW)
Five percent of 500,000 is 25,000. That is the number of patients who got a knee replacement last year who might have been just as well served by having a smaller, more focused surgery. That surgery would have reconstructed just their kneecap—called the paellofemoral.
Dr. Ronald Grelsamer, chief of patellofemoral reconstruction at Mount Sinai Medical Center, says, "A type of partial knee replacement, called a patellofemoral replacement, is an option for patients with kneecap arthritis. It's a partial knee re...