ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2022
Non-weight-bearing short knee radiographs to evaluate coronal alignment before total knee arthroplasty.
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- Beyond Alignment: Static Coronal Alterations Do Not Predict Dynamic Foot Loading or Spatiotemporal Gait Patterns After Unilateral Total Knee Replacement-A Prospective Study.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Femorotibial angle scan-rescan reproducibility: A high-precision calculation on a large cohort.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2024Article
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- Medial collateral ligament section during unicompartmental knee arthroplasty managed by direct repair and fascia lata augmentation autograft: a case report and surgical technique.AME case reports · 2024Article
- Static Baropodometry for Assessing Short-Term Functional Outcome after Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty: Exploring Correlation between Static Plantar Pressure Measurements and Self-Reported Outcomes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Key-Point Detection Algorithm of Deep Learning Can Predict Lower Limb Alignment with Simple Knee Radiographs.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundWhole leg radiograph (WLR) is the gold standard in assessing lower limb alignment before total knee arthroplasty (TKA) although in practice, non-weight-bearing short knee radiographs (NWB SKRs) are used by most medical institutions. The objective of this study was to determine whether the femorotibial angle (FTA) could be used to evaluate lower limb alignment on limited NWB SKRs. We also investigated whether FTA alignment measurements on NWB SKRs and WLRs differed depending on the direction of knee deformity.
methodsIn all, 105 knees which underwent both NWB SKR and WLR were included. Measurement of hip-knee-ankle angle (HKA) was obtained through WLR, while the FTA was found using NWB SKR (FTA
resultsThe agreement for categories of lower limb deformity was rated excellent (kappa =0.804, P<0.001). The Bland-Altman plot showed that the mean difference for the FTA
conclusionsFor outpatient follow-up, we found that the FTA on NWB SKRs is an acceptable means for classifying knee alignment (varus, neutral, or valgus). The measurement on NWB SKR also showed excellent correlation and good agreement with the HKA. For varus knees, NWB SKR measurements showed the best correlation with the HKA. However, for neutral and valgus knees, NWB SKR measurements were insufficient for conducting a reliable calculation and quantification of coronal alignment of the lower limb.
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