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New surgical instrumentation reduces the revision rate of unicompartmental knee replacement: A propensity score matched comparison of 15,906 knees from the National Joint Registry

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Background Unicompartmental knee replacement (UKR) offers advantages over total knee replacement but has higher revision rates. New instrumentation known as Microplasty was introduced to address this. The aim was to compare the revision rates of UKRs implanted with Microplasty and traditional instrumentation (Non-Microplasty).

Methods National Joint Registry (NJR) data was used to propensity score match 15,906 UKRs (7953 Microplasty and 7953 Non-Mi...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.knee.2020.02.008

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Publisher:
Elsevier
Journal:
The Knee More from this journal
Volume:
27
Issue:
3
Pages:
993-1002
Publication date:
2020-02-27
Acceptance date:
2020-02-13
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EISSN:
1873-5800
ISSN:
0968-0160
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1087317
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2020-02-13

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