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Tips and Pitfalls in Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty (UKA)

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Unicompartmental arthroplasty (UKA) is a well-established treatment option for unicompartmental osteoarthritis of the knee. There are many advantages of UKA over total knee arthroplasty (TKA). In particular UKA has as good pain relief if not better, there is a better “feel,” the range of motion is greater, UKA has normal kinematics, and the complications are fewer with UKA and less severe when compared to TKA.

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  1. Service de Chirurigie Orthopedique, Hospital Sainte Marguerite, 270, Boulevard Sainte-Marguerite, Marseilles, 13009, France

    Jean-Noel Argenson & Sebastian Parratte

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery UZ Pellenberg, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    John Bellemans

  3. Department of Orthopedic and Traumatologic Surgery, Zeromski Hospital, Crakow, Poland

    Julian Dutka & Pawel Skowronek

  4. Department of Orthopaedic, University of Oxford, Botnar Research Centre, Windmill Rd, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LD, UK

    Christopher Dodd & David Murray

  5. Vreden Russian Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Nikolay Kornilov

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  1. Istituti Ortopedico Rizzoli Clinica Ortopedica Traumatologica III, Bologna, Italy

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  2. Klinikum Brandenburg Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany

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  3. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  5. Orthopedic Surgery, University of Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    C. Niek van Dijk

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Argenson, JN. et al. (2014). Tips and Pitfalls in Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty (UKA). In: Zaffagnini, S., Becker, R., Kerkhoffs, G., Espregueira Mendes, J., van Dijk, C. (eds) ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53983-1_14

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