ReviewMaedica2013
Computer Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty: Does it Make a Difference?
Review in Maedica, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Computerized Versus Traditional Approaches for Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Quantitative Analysis of Knee Society Score and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index.Orthopaedic surgery · 2024Pooled it
- A historical journey through total knee arthroplasty: the evolutionary milestones.International orthopaedics · 2026Review
- The influence of the number of postoperative radiological outliers on the survival and clinical outcome of total knee arthroplasty.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2025Article
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- Computer and robotic - assisted total knee arthroplasty: a review of outcomes.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2020Review
- TKA with retained hardware guided by intraoperative ultrasonography - a case report.BMC surgery · 2019Article
- Computer assisted total knee arthroplasty: a real navigation to better results?Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2017Article
- Computerized tomography based "patient specific blocks" improve postoperative mechanical alignment in primary total knee arthroplasty.World journal of orthopedics · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
abstractThe longevity of total knee prostheses depends mostly on the correct alignment (frontal, sagittal and axial) of the prosthetic components, soft tissue balancing and restoring the mechanical axis of the lower limb.The use of computer-assisted navigation allows more accurate and reproducible restoration of mechanical axis and component positioning, better results in patients with extra-articular deformities and it has an important role in surgical training.Better alignment should lead to an improved functional outcome and an increased long-term survival of the prosthesis. Several studies have proven an improved function in the short and mid-term but we still lack long-term data regarding functional outcome and longevity of the prostheses.
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24371482PMC3865127W71168577What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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