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Complicated Cases: Recurvatum and Severe Contracture

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Patients proposed for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) present severe pain, limited function, loss of motion, and increasing deformity.Most patients present fixed varus and valgus deformities in the coronal plane. The sagittal plane deformities are mostly flexion contractures and a few are recurvatum.

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  1. Knee, Ankle and Sports Trauma Unit, Orthopedic Department, Hospital Cuf Descobertas, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ricardo Varatojo MD, Ricardo Telles de Freitas MD & Mário Vale MD

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kyoto University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kyoto, Japan

    Shuichi Matsuda

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Lyon University - Croix Rousse Hospital Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Lyon, France

    Sébastien Lustig

  3. Sports Science Institute of South Africa Orthopaedic Clinic, Cape Town, South Africa

    Willem van der Merwe

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Varatojo, R., de Freitas, R.T., Vale, M. (2017). Complicated Cases: Recurvatum and Severe Contracture. In: Matsuda, S., Lustig, S., van der Merwe, W. (eds) Soft Tissue Balancing in Total Knee Arthroplasty. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54082-4_11

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