This article uses the techniques we described in Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again and Femoral component rotation: Find your groove more accurately. Those articles showed… Read more “Femurs are twisted and it screws up our knee replacements”
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Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again
Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again This headline may sound a bit harsh, and no offense intended to Dr Whiteside, but I’ll show you why… Read more “Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again”
Femoral Rotation: Let’s Just Use the Posterior Condyles?
The most commonly used landmark to set femoral rotation is the posterior condyles. They are easy to find and easy to use. There is very little measurement… Read more “Femoral Rotation: Let’s Just Use the Posterior Condyles?”
Femoral Rotation : When the Gold Standard is a bit rubbish
The Gold Standard for femoral component rotation following total knee arthroplasty is a line parallel to the Surgical Epicondylar Axis (SEA) on a three-dimensional CT reconstruction of the knee.
Alignment of Total Knee Replacements 