Abstract
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA) was instituted in the early 1990s by John Repicci [1, 2]. While there had been a long history of UKA dating back to the early 1970s [3–6], the techniques and surgical approaches were modeled after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The results were not equal to TKA, and many surgeons abandoned the procedure. The MIS approach introduced a new method to perform the surgery and helped to improve the results by emphasizing the differences between TKA and UKA. MIS forced the surgeon to consider UKA as a separate operation with its own techniques and its own principles.
Adapted from Berger RA, Tria AJ, Jr., Minimally invasive surgery for unicondylar knee arthroplasty: the intramedullary technique, in Scuderi GR, Tria, AJ, Jr., Berger RA (eds.), MIS Techniques in Orthopedics, 2006, with kind permission from Springer Science + Business Media
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Berger, R.A., Tria, A.J. (2015). Minimally Invasive Surgery for Unicondylar Knee Arthroplasty: The Intramedullary Technique. In: Scuderi, G., Tria, A. (eds) Minimally Invasive Surgery in Orthopedics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15206-6_51-1
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