Reliability of bony landmarks for restoration of the joint line in revision knee arthroplasty

• Published in: Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 263 - 269
• Main Authors: Servien, Elvire, Viskontas, Darius, Giuffrè, Bruno M., Coolican, Myles R. J., Parker, David A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.03.2008; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Arthritis; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee - methods; Biomechanical Phenomena; Cartilage; Computers; Female; Females; Femur - anatomy & histology; Fibula - anatomy & histology; Gender differences; Humans; Joint replacement surgery; Joints; Knee; Knee Joint - anatomy & histology; Knees; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Males; Measurement; Measurement techniques; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Orthopedics; Osteoarthritis; Patients; Reliability; Reoperation; Sex differences; Skeleton; Surgery; Tibia - anatomy & histology; Australia; Knee; Arthroplasty; Revision; Epicondyle; Joint line

The aim of this study was to determine the reliability of bone landmarks for restoring the joint line in revision knee arthroplasty. The relationship of the femoral epicondyles, the tibial tubercle (TT) and the fibular head (FH) to the joint line was measured on 200 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI,...