Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: new indications, more complications?
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Abstract
Despite mixed results with unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) in the 1970s, the UKA was established as a reliable procedure in the low-demand, elderly patient. Dependable results up to a decade prompted the idea that UKA may work equally well in the younger patient. Expanded indications for UKA are being evaluated: might higher failure rates and difficult revisions emerge from younger, more active patients?
Medical subject headings
- Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee
- Knee Joint
- Osteotomy
- Postoperative Complications
- Tibia
Anatomy
- knee
- tibia