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Surgical treatment of arthritic varus knee by tibial corticotomy and angular distraction with an external fixator
Q Mollica1, W Leonardi, G Longo
1Istituto di Clinica Ortopedica e Traumatologica, Università di Catania.
Italian Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The authors report their experience in surgical treatment of the arthritic varus knee. After a comparative study of the most commonly used osteotomy techniques, they describe the results of their first cases of metaphyseal tibial corticotomy and angular distraction using an external fixator (25 cases).