LETTER TO THE EDITOR Revision of Unicondylar to Total Knee Arthoplasty: A Systematic Review

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Revision of Unicondylar to Total Knee Arthoplasty: A Systematic Review

To assess revision rates after knee arthroplasty we compared cumulative results from world wide clinical studies and arthroplasty registers from the 1960 up to now in one of the largest reviews ever [1]. We found, the overall revision rate at ten years was 6% for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and17%for unicondylar protheses (UKA). Literature from non-register studies are biased regarding UKA [2...

Revision of Unicondylar to Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review

Isolated unicompartmental osteoarthritis in the young patient is a difficult problem to treat; they may be too young to consider total knee arthroplasty due to difficulties with inevitable future revision. Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty is one possible solution as it is perceived by some as being a smaller surgical insult than total knee arthroplasty, with easier revision to total knee arth...

Letter to the editor

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