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Before beginning this chapter, perhaps a disclaimer is necessary: I’m not exclusively a knee surgeon, nor is knee surgery the most important and frequent part of my practice. I am neither a designer of the unicompartmental knee replacement (UKR) nor do I receive benefits for implanting them. I’m just saying this because the most frequent accusations, addressed to enthusiast knee surgeons using UKR, are that of expanding the indications and to obtain very positive but non-reproducible results by “normal” surgeons [1–3]. Likewise, there are surgeons inventors of new designs and models who exaggerate in their choices always with excellent results [4–8]. However, I believe, indeed, that almost all surgeons can obtain good results by just respecting the correct indications and following some basic rules of surgical technique.
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Confalonieri, N., Manzotti, A. (2013). UKR Surgical Technique: Pearls and Pitfalls. In: Confalonieri, N., Romagnoli, S. (eds) Small Implants in Knee Reconstruction. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2655-1_5
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