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In patients who have osteoarthritis of the medial compartment of the knee in association with genu varum, a high tibial osteotomy (HTO) remains an important surgical option. The clinical outcome at 10 years continues to be favorable in more than 70% of the patients if the frontal angular malalignment has been corrected to 3–6 degrees of valgus.
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Debarge, R., Trouillet, F., Demey, G., Magnussen, R., Neyret, P., Butcher, C. (2020). Valgus High Tibial Osteotomy: Lateral Closing and Medial Opening. In: Neyret, P., Butcher, C., Demey, G. (eds) Surgery of the Knee. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19073-6_17
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