کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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4063410 | 1604058 | 2009 | 9 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
The treatment of unicompartmental osteoarthritis of the knee by high tibial osteotomy has been carried out by closing-wedge osteotomy. The advantages for opening-wedge osteotomy are ease of procedure and improved correction with comparable short-term to midterm results. It is not known how the opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy procedure alters the load distribution between the medial and lateral compartments of the knee. The current biomechanical study investigated opening-wedge vs closing-wedge osteotomies in 5 pairs of cadaver knees. The results showed that at 5° osteotomy, the closing-wedge provided superior results of load transfer from medial to lateral compartment than that seen with opening-wedge, but at 10° osteotomy, there was no significant difference in load transfer in the knee compartments between the 2 surgery modes.
Journal: The Journal of Arthroplasty - Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 101–109