The Walldius hinge arthroplasty.

Mould Arthroplasty of the Knee

Many forms of knee arthroplasty have been described but all are based on one of two principles. The first requires the interposition of material between the bony surfaces after removal of synovial membrane and articular cartilage ; in the second the knee joint is resected and replaced by a metal hinge (Walldius 1957, Shiers 1960). Material interposed between the bony surfaces has included chrom...

The Classic

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453671003667192 Börje Walldius was born in southern Sweden in 1913, but spent most of his professional life in Stockholm where he died in 1998. He publis...

Posterior Dislocation of the Hinge-Post Extension in a Rotating Hinge Total Knee Prosthesis

The rotating hinge knee prosthesis is a popular intervention in patients lacking stability with highly constrained total knee arthroplasty. Despite improvements in design, nonmechanical and mechanical complications continue to be a problem. Dislocation of the hinge has been widely described, mainly due to the component fracture. Few reports describe isolated dislocation of the rotating stem. We...

Fixed hinge knee arthroplasty.

Arthroplasty of the knee by the Walldius prosthesis.

This paper presents a review of forty-five arthroplasties of the knee performed between 1961 and 1967, using the prosthesis designed in Sweden by Borge Walldius. The results presented are the combined experience of four surgeons : Mr F. C. Durbin, eleven knees; Mr R. Merryweather, thirteen knees; Mr R. S. Ling, four knees; and myself, seventeen knees. There were forty-five arthroplasties in for...