Today’s primary UKR may become tomorrow’s complicated revision (OrthoSuperSite)
PRAGUE — Researchers at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital discovered in their recent analysis of register-based unicompartmental and total knee arthroplasty revision cases that the procedures were more complicated than primary cases due to increases in bone loss and use of constrained prostheses.
Using polyethylene bearing thickness as a surrogate for bone loss in their analysis of data in the National Joint Registry (NJR) for England and Wales, Khaled Sarraf and colleagues found mean bearing ...
