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or learning curve or survivorship including clinical, cadaveric or dry bone studies. Studies were excluded if they were case reports, review articles or were not available in the English language. Data extraction The collected data from each
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been associated with a range of adverse post-operative outcomes ( 3 ), and there is a high incidence of deficiency reported in patients undergoing total hip (THR) or knee (TKR) arthroplasty ( 4 ). Previous systematic reviews ( 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ) have
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)). However, most studies do not report information about the presence of retained hardware ( 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 8 ); it can be concluded that in most cases, patients underwent a two-stage procedure with hardware removal followed by UKR. Prosthesis
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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that reported clinical and/or radiological outcomes comparing KA and MA TKA. Case reports, letters, unpublished data, cadaver studies and studies of revision arthroplasty were excluded ( Fig. 3 ). Fig. 3 PRISMA Flow Diagram Note . RCT
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the eligibility criteria, and we, therefore, did not find risk and bias regarding allocation or blinding. The risk of selection bias was not considered significant as all studies included reported all cases operated within a given time frame selected
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-operative range of motion (ROM) were frequently reported. In order to perform this analysis, the data we reviewed were: Number of patients Single- or double-stage exchange In case of double-stage exchange, the kind of spacer: static or
Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospital of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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Department of Electromechanics, InViLab research group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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concomitant clinical and/or radiographic and/or biomechanical ankle/hindfoot investigations; (iii) patient reported outcome measures and/or angular measurements and/or pressure measurements; (iv) follow-up time of at least 3 months in case of clinical studies
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Facoltà di Scienze Biomediche, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
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Applied and Translational Research Center, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
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case-control study by Berend et al 15 reporting significantly better Lower Extremity Activity Score and Knee Society Function Score for the one-stage vs. the two-stage UKA group. Meta-analysis: single-stage vs. two-stage bilateral UKA Six case
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tendon ruptures ( 30 ). Reported risk factors for quadriceps tendon tears are obesity, diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic tendinopathy with bone spurs ( 31 ), amyloidosis and systemic or local corticosteroids ( 32 ). A third of the cases
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, St Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy, Australia
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reported that only 25% of TKRs were performed at hospitals with annual case volumes exceeding 200 TKRs. 35 Similar findings may apply to other countries where the use of computer navigation in TKR is also increasingly prevalent. 36 The differences
