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It has often been claimed that ankle arthroplasty should be reserved for patients with polyarthritis who have small physical demands. For patients with osteoarthritis (OA), arthrodesis is preferred since arthroplasty may fail rapidly In the present prospective study, we compared the outcome of ankle arthroplasty in patients with OA and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on a long-term basis.
This paper has appeared in full in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British volume, 1998 80:328–332
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Sandberg, S.T., Kofoed, H. (1998). Cemented Ankle Arthroplasty for Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis — Long-Term Results. In: Kofoed, H. (eds) Current Status of Ankle Arthroplasty. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72255-4_20
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