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Avoiding Complications

Guidelines for Safe Arthroscopic Knee Surgery

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Knee arthroscopy is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in the field of orthopedics. This procedure has relatively low morbidity, but with the large volume of procedures performed and the evolution of more complex techniques using minimally invasive approaches, complications are bound to occur.

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Whipple, T.L., Phillips, D.J. (2001). Avoiding Complications. In: Malek, M.M. (eds) Knee Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87202-0_1

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