The multiply-operated total knee replacement patient: salvage options.

Haidukewych, G J; Petrie, J R; Adigweme, O · Bone Joint J · 2014

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Abstract

Although the vast majority of patients that undergo total knee replacement have satisfactory outcomes with a generally low complication rate, occasionally a patient will be encountered that has had multiple failed surgeries, and now reaches a crossroad as to whether limb salvage will be acceptable or not.

Medical subject headings

Anatomy