ArticleKnee surgery & related research2012
The Effect of Electrocautery around the Patellar Rim in Patellar Non-Resurfacing Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Article in Knee surgery & related research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Does Patellar Denervation with Electrocautery Benefits for Total Knee Arthroplasty without Patellar Resurfacing: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trails.Orthopaedic surgery · 2024Pooled it
- Patellar Denervation with Electrocautery Reduces Anterior Knee Pain within 1 Year after Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Orthopaedic surgery · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of Patellar Denervation on Anterior Knee Pain and Knee Function in Total Knee Arthroplasty without Patellar Resurfacing: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Orthopaedic surgery · 2020Pooled it
- Is patellar denervation necessary in total knee arthroplasty without patellar resurfacing?Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2016Pooled it
- Does patellar denervation reduce post-operative anterior knee pain after total knee arthroplasty?Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2015Pooled it
- Circumferential electrocautery of the patella in primary total knee replacement without patellar replacement: a meta-analysis and systematic review.Scientific reports · 2015Pooled it
- Patellar denervation with electrocautery in total knee arthroplasty without patellar resurfacing: a meta-analysis.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2014Pooled it
- Patellar denervation does not reduce post-operative anterior knee pain after primary total knee arthroplasty with patellar resurfacing.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2021Trial
- Does Circumferential Patellar Denervation Result in Decreased Knee Pain and Improved Patient-reported Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Nonresurfaced, Simultaneous Bilateral TKA?Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2020Trial
- Circumpatellar Denervation With Patelloplasty in Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty Without Resurfacing: Five-year Outcomes by International Cartilage Repair Society Patellar Cartilage Grade.Arthroplasty today · 2026Article
- Circumferential patellar denervation does not reduce anterior knee pain in total knee arthroplasty without patellar resurfacing; a prospective comparison.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Observational
- Is the patient aware of the difference between resurfaced and nonresurfaced patella after bilateral total knee arthroplasty? A systematic review of simultaneous bilateral randomized trials.Knee surgery & related research · 2022Review
- New treatment of patellar instability after total knee arthroplasty: A case report and review of literature.World journal of clinical cases · 2020Article
- Effect of Patellar Electrocautery Neurectomy on Postoperative Pain among Patients Referred for Total Knee Arthroplasty.Advanced biomedical research · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical effect of electrocautery on the reduction of pain in patellar non-resurfacing bilateral total knee arthroplasty. MATERIALS AND
methodsA total of 50 patients were enrolled into this study; all patients had undergone bilateral patellar non-resurfacing total knee arthoplasty at our hospital, between January 2007 to December 2008. The minimum follow-up period was 1 year. The electrocautery of the patellar rim was performed randomly on one side only. The clinical results were evaluated between the electrocautery group and the non-electrocautery group based on measures of anterior knee pain, range of motion, American Knee Society clinical rating score, Feller knee score, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities score, and radiographic analysis.
resultsThere were statistically significant differences between preoperative and postoperative status for all parameters. There were no statistically significant differences noted between the electrocautery group and the non electrocautery group for all parameters.
conclusionsElectrocautery of patellar rim is thought to be less effective in reducing anterior knee pain.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.