Journal article
Does body mass index affect the outcome of unicompartmental knee replacement?
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BACKGROUND: Obesity is considered to be a contraindication for unicompartmental knee replacement (UKR). The aim was to study the impact of BMI on failure rate and clinical outcome of the Oxford mobile bearing UKR. METHOD: Two thousand four hundred and thirty-eight medial Oxford UKRs were studied prospectively and divided into groups: BMI<25 (n=378), BMI 25 to <30 (n=856), BMI 30 to <35 (n=712), BMI 35 to <40 (n=286), and BMI 40 to <45 (n=126) and BMI≥45 (n=80). RESULTS: There w...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Knee
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 461-465
- Publication date:
- 2013-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1873-5800
- ISSN:
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0968-0160
- Source identifiers:
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358316
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:358316
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- pubs:358316
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- 2013
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