Abstract

Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is a bone- and ligament-sparing alternative to total knee arthroplasty in the patients with end-stage single-compartment degeneration of the knee. Despite being a successful procedure, the multiple advantages of UKA do not correlate with its usage, most likely due to the concerns regarding prosthesis survivability, patient selection, ideal bearing design, and judicious use of advanced technology among many others. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to review and summarize the debated literature and discuss the controversies as “Ten Enigmas of UKA.”

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Title
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, an enigma, and the ten enigmas of medial UKA
Author
Mittal Anurag 1 ; Meshram Prashant 2 ; Kim Woo Hyun 3 ; Kim, Tae Kyun 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  TK Orthopedic Surgery, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea 
2  Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Department of Orthopaedics, Baltimore, USA (GRID:grid.21107.35) (ISNI:0000 0001 2171 9311) 
3  TK Orthopedic Surgery, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea (GRID:grid.21107.35) 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Dec 2020
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
15909921
e-ISSN
15909999
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s10195-020-00551-x
ProQuest document ID
2439641842
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.