Abstract
The most widely spread and frequently performed osteotomy around the knee joint is the medial opening wedge high tibial osteotomy (mwHTO), a procedure that has managed to occupy a spotlight position as a powerful modality for the treatment of medial compartment gonalgia and degeneration [1–3]. The art is surely not in the technicality aspect of the procedure, but in correct patient selection. Therefore, the procedure would provide an elegant modality for the symptomatic patient with a constitutional metaphyseal varus of the proximal tibia. A few aspects are provided in the following chapter.
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Ahmad, S.S. (2020). Medial Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy. 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_4
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