ReviewEFORT open reviews2020
Robotic technology: current concepts, operative techniques and emerging uses in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.
Review in EFORT open reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- The presence of spin is commonly found in the abstracts of systematic reviews and meta-analysis on robotic-assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2026Pooled it
- Radiolucent lines after robotic-assisted surface-matching kinematically aligned UKA: short-term incidence and lack of association with tibial alignment.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2026Article
- Robotic-assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty is associated with lower odds of prolonged hospitalization and no higher odds of high-charge admission during the index hospitalization.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2026Article
- Comparative analysis of revision causes between robotic-assisted and conventional manual unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Knee surgery & related research · 2026Review
- Robotic-Assisted Joint Line Preserving Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Positioning Among Octogenarians.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Enhancing Outcomes in Knee and Hip Arthroplasty: A Multifaceted Approach.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Patients with Robotic Arm-Assisted Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty (mUKA) Regain Their Preoperative Activity Level Two Weeks Earlier Compared to Robotic Arm-Assisted Kinematically Aligned Total Knee Arthroplasty (rKA-TKA).Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Current trends of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA): choosing between robotic-assisted and conventional surgeries and timing of procedures.Arthroplasty (London, England) · 2025Article
- Does patient-specific instrument or robot improve imaging and functional outcomes in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty? A bayesian analysis.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2024Article
- Factors predicting lower limb alignment after Oxford medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Robotic-assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: historical perspectives and current innovations.Biomedical engineering letters · 2023Review
- Best practice in digital orthopaedics.EFORT open reviews · 2023Review
- Return to Sport After Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2022Review
- Comparison of the radiological parameters between dynamic-referencing tactile guidance robotic system and Microplasty® instrumentation in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Joint diseases and related surgery · 2022Article
- Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Is Associated With a Lower Rate of Periprosthetic Joint Infection Compared to Total Knee Arthroplasty.Arthroplasty today · 2021Article
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is associated with improved functional outcomes but reduced implant survivorship compared to total knee arthroplasty (TKA).Surgeon-controlled errors in component positioning are the most common reason for implant failure in UKA, and low UKA case-volume is associated with poor implant survivorship and earlier time to revision surgery.Robotic UKA is associated with improved accuracy of achieving the planned femoral and tibial component positioning compared to conventional manual UKA.Robotic UKA has a learning curve of six operative cases for achieving operative times and surgical team comfort levels comparable to conventional manual UKA, but there is no learning curve effect for accuracy of implant positioning or limb alignment.Robotic UKA is associated with reduced postoperative pain, decreased opiate analgesia requirements, faster inpatient rehabilitation, and earlier time to hospital discharge compared to conventional manual UKA.Limitations of robotic UKA include high installation costs, additional radiation exposure with image-based systems, and paucity of studies showing any long-term differences in functional outcomes or implant survivorship compared to conventional manual UKA.Further clinical studies are required to establish how statistical differences in accuracy of implant positioning between conventional manual UKA and robotic UKA translate to long-term differences in functional outcomes, implant survivorship, complications, and cost-effectiveness. Cite this article:
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