Is high tibial osteotomy superior to unloader brace treatment in patients with varus malaligned medial knee osteoarthritis?
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High Tibial Osteotomy for Medial Knee Osteoarthritis
1,2). This lower extremity realignment procedure is used to relieve pain and correct varus deformity of the knee joint. Preoperative planning to determine the correction gap and angle has a significant effect on postoperative results of HTO. However, postopera-tive correction can be incongruent with the preoperative plan, even with the use of a navigation system and computer imaging. In a clini...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1063-4584
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2017.12.010