ReviewMusculoskeletal surgery2015
Patient-specific instrumentation for total knee arthroplasty: a literature review.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Patient-specific instrumentation improved axial alignment of the femoral component, operative time and perioperative blood loss after total knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2019Pooled it
- Does patient-specific instrumentation increase the risk of notching in the anterior femoral cortex in total knee arthroplasty? A comparative prospective trial.International orthopaedics · 2020Trial
- PSI kinematic versus non-PSI mechanical alignment in total knee arthroplasty: a prospective, randomized study.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2017Trial
- The effect of using patient-specific guides for total knee replacement without hardware removal in complex post-traumatic arthritis: an in-vitro study.Biomedical engineering online · 2026Article
- Accuracy of total knee arthroplasty using hospital-based 3D printed patient-specific instrumentation: A radiology research.Journal of orthopaedics · 2025Article
- Clinical and Economic Case for Patient-Specific Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Prospective Study.Cureus · 2025Article
- The Role of 3D-Printed Patient-Specific Instrumentation in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Literature Review.Cureus · 2023Review
- 3D-printed patient-specific instrumentation decreases the variability of patellar height in total knee arthroplasty.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Improving MiniHip femoral prosthesis positioning using a cross-laser projection system in total hip arthroplasty by an anterolateral supine approach.The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS · 2021Article
- Evolution of TKA design.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2017Review
- Patient specific instrumentation in total knee arthroplasty: a state of the art.Annals of translational medicine · 2016Review
- Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery: Current State and Future Perspective.Frontiers in surgery · 2015Review
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Abstract
During the past decade, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been markedly increased. Recently, patient-specific custom cutting guides have been commercially introduced in order to achieve an accurate component alignment during TKA. In fact, these cutting blocks are specific to a patient's knee anatomy and should help the surgeons to perform bone cuts, reducing the complexity of conventional alignment and sizing tools. Nevertheless, there are critical arguments against patient-specific cutting guides for routine use, such as poor evidence and higher costs. Additionally, there are still no mild and long-term results available that describe the clinical outcomes following patient-specific instrumentation of TKR, cost-effectiveness and lower revision rates. Aim of the current manuscript was to describe the recent improvements of the surgical technique and instrumentation of TKA, reviewing the recent literature concerning the PSI technology.
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