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Total Knee Arthroplasty: The Basics, Surgical Technique to Get Your Total Knee Arthroplasty Right

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Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a successful procedure that is performed increasingly due to more present painful knee osteoarthritis. After a correct indication for a TKA, a good exposure during this procedure will assure a good clinical and radiological result.

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    Victoria B. Duthon

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

    Fredrik K. Almqvist M.D., Ph.D., Peter C. M. Verdonk M.D., Ph.D., Jan Victor M.D., Ph.D. & P-J. Vandekerckhove

  3. Clinic “Città di Parma”, Parma, Italy

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  5. Clinique du cèdre, Bois Guillaume, France

    Jean-Louis Briard

  6. IFCA Institute, Florence, Italy

    Andrea Baldini M.D.

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    Andrea Baldini M.D.

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Correspondence to Victoria B. Duthon , Fredrik K. Almqvist M.D., Ph.D. , P-J. Vandekerckhove , Peter C. M. Verdonk M.D., Ph.D. , Jan Victor M.D., Ph.D. , Paolo Adravanti , Peter C. M. Verdonk M.D., Ph.D. , Fredrik K. Almqvist M.D., Ph.D. , Jan Victor M.D., Ph.D. or Jean-Louis Briard .

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Duthon, V.B. et al. (2012). Total Knee Arthroplasty: The Basics, Surgical Technique to Get Your Total Knee Arthroplasty Right. In: Menetrey, J., Zaffagnini, S., Fritschy, D., van Dijk, N. (eds) ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29446-4_15

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