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14 Malposition and Malorientation After Total Knee Replacement

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The Unhappy Total Knee Replacement

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In this chapter, the authors focus on malpositioned and/or maloriented components in total knee replacement (TKR) causing pain and leading to early failure. Such complications may be avoided with careful preoperative planning, intraoperative attention, and point-by-point operative procedures. Recent advances in technology and device such as computer-assisted navigation systems and patient-specific instrumentation may solve issues and help surgeons perform appropriate and painless TKR.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki, Kobe, 650-0017, Japan

    Tomoyuki Matsumoto MD & Ryosuke Kuroda MD

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  1. Dept. Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology, Knee Surgery Unit, Kantonsspital Baselland (Bruderholz, Liestal, Laufen), Bruderholz, Switzerland

    Michael T. Hirschmann

  2. Dept. Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Hospital Brandenburg, Brandenburg/Havel, Germany

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Matsumoto, T., Kuroda, R. (2015). 14 Malposition and Malorientation After Total Knee Replacement. In: Hirschmann, M., Becker, R. (eds) The Unhappy Total Knee Replacement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08099-4_16

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