Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Survivorship is Lower Than TKA Survivorship: A 27-year Finnish Registry Study

Niinimäki, Tuukka; Eskelinen, Antti; Mäkelä, Keijo; Ohtonen, Pasi; Puhto, Ari‐Pekka; Remes, Ville

doi:10.1007/s11999-013-3347-2

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Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Survivorship is Lower Than TKA Survivorship: A 27-year Finnish Registry Study

Published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research • Nov 19, 2013

Authors:

Tuukka Niinimäki

Antti Eskelinen

Keijo Mäkelä

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Balancing the relative advantages and disadvantages of unicompartmental knee arthroplasties (UKAs) against those for TKAs can be challenging. Survivorship is one important end point; arthroplasty registers repeatedly report inferior midterm survival rates, but longer-term data are sparse...

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Medicine

Survivorship curve

Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty

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