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Minimally Invasive Osteotomies Around the Knee

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Osteoarthritis is a very common cause of knee pain. It affects high percentages of patients above 60 years of age [1] but is also seen in younger patients as a result of different etiologies including rheumatoid arthritis, a genetic predisposition, poor cartilage quality, or obesity.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital Baselland (Bruderholz, Liestal, Laufen), Bruderholz, Basel Land, Switzerland

    Michael Tobias Hirschmann

  2. Center of Functional and Biological Reconstruction of the Knee, Humanitas University, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy

    Elizaveta Kon

  3. Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Kristian Samuelsson

  4. Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milano, Italy

    Matteo Denti

  5. Department of Orthopaedics, Lyon Ortho Clinic, LYON, France

    David Dejour

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Kley, K. (2020). Minimally Invasive Osteotomies Around the Knee. In: Hirschmann, M., Kon, E., Samuelsson, K., Denti, M., Dejour, D. (eds) ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61264-4_11

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