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Despite its success and durability, about 20% of patients report unfavourable outcomes following their TKA. This is multifactorial with ongoing knee pain, limited function, and failure to meet preoperative expectations being the issues most likely to result in dissatisfaction. A systematic approach to evaluating problematic knees is essential to ascertain whether a revision surgery, a major undertaking, would solve the patient’s problems. In this chapter, we try to shed light on some practical aspects of evaluating patients presenting to revision knee clinics.
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Matar, H.E., Bloch, .V., Cameron, H.U., James, P.J. (2021). Assessment of Painful Total Knee Arthroplasty. In: Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81285-0_3
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