Improving Accuracy in Knee Arthroplasty - 9789350258705

Thienpont (orthopedics, Saint Luc U. Hospital, Belgium) brings together other orthopedic specialists and biomedical engineers from Europe, the US, Australia, and the Middle East for 26 chapters on technology meant to improve total knee arthroplasty for patients with knee arthritis. They discuss alignment and malalignment, its assessment, and frontal, sagittal, and rotational alignment; finding anatomical landmarks in the normal and arthritic knee; biomechanics; the impact of the foot on weight-bearing alignment; the intra-articular impact of extra-articular alignment deformity; navigation in arthroplasty; Mimics software; patient-specific instruments; MRI and CT-based cutting and pinning guides; kinematically-aligned arthroplasty with MRI-based cutting guides; individualized total knee arthroplasty; unicompartmental arthroplasty with patient-specific guides and instruments; robotic knee arthroplasty; patient-matched robotic uniconylar arthroplasty; patient-specific instruments as a teaching tool; and soft tissue-based alignment. Many operative photos, images, and other illustrations are incorporated. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)