ArtiFacts: The GUEPAR Offset Hinge Knee

Guepar total knee prosthesis. Experience at the Vancouver General Hospital.

Eighty-three Guepar valgus-hinge prostheses and 30 prostheses with collinear femoral and the tibial components were inserted in 97 patients at Vancouver General Hospital between March 1975 and May 1978. One hundred and nine arthroplasties were reviewed between January 1979 and April 1980, after an average follow-up of 19 months. It was found that the amount of bone resected made arthrodesis dif...

Fixed hinge knee arthroplasty.

Rotating-hinge total knee for revision total knee arthroplasty.

Rotating-hinge knee implants are used for revision total knee arthroplasty in patients with severe ligament instability and bone loss. This study evaluated the outcomes of a series of rotating-hinge knees. Thirty-one NexGen Rotating Hinge Knees (Zimmer, Warsaw, Indiana) were implanted in 29 patients (2 bilateral), with an average age of 72.8 years. Indications for surgery were aseptic loosening...

Modular, mobile-bearing hinge total knee arthroplasty.

Early reports of hinge total knee arthroplasty showed high rates of complications and implant failure. Third-generation modular, mobile-bearing, hinge knee arthroplasty systems have evolved to decrease the deleterious stresses that contributed to the failures of earlier designs. The combined series of Barrack et al and Jones et al documents midterm results using the S-ROM Hinge Knee System for ...

Kinematic artifacts in the extended subsurface offset domain

We provide a kinematic analysis of the prestack image behaviour in the subsurface offset domain. When the medium properties are perfectly known, the image is expected to focus at the zero subsurface offset, where the incident and the scattering wavefields interact at a common point. However, kinematic artifacts are often observed in subsurface offset common-image gathers (CIGs) away from the ze...