Surgical Release of Severe Flexion Contracture for Oncologic Knee Arthroplasty
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Surgical Release of Severe Flexion Contracture for Oncologic Knee Arthroplasty
BACKGROUND Severe postoperative knee contractures after arthroplasty or megaprosthesis reconstruction occur rarely, but are devastating complications. Management of preoperative flexion contractures is well-described, but there is a paucity of literature for surgical treatment of postoperative contractures. A retrospective chart review was performed for a single surgeon of cases between 1996 an...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Open Orthopaedics Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1874-3250
DOI: 10.2174/1874325001711010045