ArticleThe Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume1992
Anterior knee pain in rheumatoid patients after total knee replacement. Possible selection criteria for patellar resurfacing.
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- The impact of patellofemoral joint diseases on functional outcomes and prosthesis survival in patients undergoing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Pooled it
- To Resurface or Not to Resurface the Patella in Total Knee Arthroplasty, That Is the Question: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Pooled it
- Determinants of anterior knee pain following total knee replacement: a systematic review.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2014Pooled it
- Systematic review of patellar resurfacing in total knee arthroplasty.International orthopaedics · 2011Pooled it
- Survivorship comparison of all-polyethylene and metal-backed tibial components in cruciate-substituting total knee arthroplasty--Chinese experience.International orthopaedics · 2009Trial
- New evidence on patella resurfacing in modern total knee arthroplasty for all inflammatory arthritis in a mixed Asian population.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2024Article
- Patella non-resurfacing in primary total knee arthroplasty provides good functional results-a retrospective review of nine thousand three hundred forty six knees.International orthopaedics · 2023Article
- Explanatory Factors for Periprosthetic Infection in Total Knee Arthroplasty.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Prevalence of anterior knee pain after patellar retention total knee arthroplasty: Comparison of patients with rheumatoid arthritis versus primary osteoarthritis.Acta orthopaedica et traumatologica turcica · 2019Article
- Changes in patella tendon length over 5 years after different types of knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2016Article
- Similar patient-reported outcomes and performance after total knee arthroplasty with or without patellar resurfacing.Acta orthopaedica · 2016Article
- Anterior knee pain following primary total knee arthroplasty.World journal of orthopedics · 2015Review
- [Patella position and patellofemoral osteoarthritis after unicompartmental arthroplasty].Der Orthopade · 2014Review
- Trans-patella tendon approach for domed lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty does not increase the risk of patella tendon shortening.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2014Article
- The effect of tibio-femoral over-distraction in primary knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2013Article
- Patella baja after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2012Article
- Comparison of five patellar height measurement methods in 90° knee flexion.International orthopaedics · 2011Article
- Patella in total knee arthroplasty: to resurface or not to--a cohort study of staged bilateral total knee arthroplasty.International orthopaedics · 2011Article
- A dutch survey on circumpatellar electrocautery in total knee arthroplasty.The open orthopaedics journal · 2010Article
- Does patellar eversion in total knee arthroplasty cause patella baja?Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2008Article
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Abstract
Postoperative anterior knee pain was evaluated in a consecutive series of 138 knees in 108 patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated by total knee replacement with Mark I Insall-Burstein prostheses. No knee had primary patellar resurfacing, and in the 119 knees followed up for a mean of 63.9 months, none had secondary resurfacing. Anterior knee pain was absent in 87 knees (73%), mild in 16 (13.5%) and moderate or severe in 16 (13.5%). The height of the patella above the prosthetic joint line was the only variable which was directly related to the incidence of anterior knee pain. The sensitivity and specificity of patellar height measurements for identifying patients with or without pain were derived. From these data, a selective policy of resurfacing the patella in those at risk was adopted. Choosing a patellar height of 15 mm or less, patellar resurfacing could be avoided in 80% of patients likely to have no pain, and the patella could be resurfaced in 65% of those likely to have anterior knee pain.
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