The Knee Joint: Surgical Techniques and Strategies

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The menisci: Anatomy, healing response, and biomechanics....Pages 5-9
The cruciate ligaments: Anatomy, biology, and biomechanics....Pages 11-21
The anatomy and biomechanics of the medial collateral ligament and posteromedial corner of the knee....Pages 23-30
The lateral collateral ligament and posterolateral corner....Pages 31-42
Basic science of ligament healing....Pages 43-50
Clinical basis: Epidemiology, risk factors, mechanisms of injury, and prevention of ligament injuries of the knee....Pages 53-70
MRI evaluation of knee ligaments....Pages 71-84
Classification of knee laxities....Pages 85-93
Scoring the knee....Pages 95-105
Arthroscopic meniscectomy....Pages 109-123
Meniscal sutures....Pages 125-138
Meniscal allograft transplantation....Pages 139-147
Diagnostic and surgical decision ACL tears....Pages 151-161
Natural history of ACL tears: From rupture to osteoarthritis....Pages 163-172
Graft choice in ACL reconstruction....Pages 173-181
Tunnels, graft positioning, and isometry in ACL reconstruction....Pages 183-194
Technique in ACL reconstruction: Hamstring reconstruction....Pages 195-202
Technique in ACL reconstruction: Patellar tendon....Pages 203-216
Place of navigation in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction....Pages 217-226
Single or double bundle?....Pages 227-234
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Anatomic double-bundle ACL reconstruction: How I do it?....Pages 235-243
Results of ACL reconstruction....Pages 245-262
Arthrofibrosis after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction....Pages 263-268
ACL rehabilitation....Pages 269-290
ACL rupture in children: Anatomical and biological bases, outcome of ACL deficient knee in childhood: Strategy, operative technique, results, and complications....Pages 291-323
Combined injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament and posterolateral corner....Pages 325-341
Failure in ACL reconstruction: Etiology, treatment, and results....Pages 343-353
Definition and diagnosis of posterior cruciate ligament injury and algorithm of treatment....Pages 357-367
Natural history of PCL ruptures....Pages 369-375
The PCL: Different options in PCL reconstruction: Choice of the graft? One or two bundles?....Pages 377-386
Graft tunnel positioning during PCL reconstruction....Pages 387-393
Techniques in posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: An arthroscopic approach....Pages 395-403
Arthroscopic reconstruction of the posterior cruciate ligament using double-bundle and tibial-inlay technique....Pages 405-410
Technique in PCL reconstruction: Mini posterior approach....Pages 411-415
Results of PCL reconstruction....Pages 417-420
Combined injuries to the posterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament of the knee....Pages 421-426
PCL injury associated with a posterolateral tear....Pages 427-439
The multiple-ligament injured knee....Pages 443-455
Surgical treatment of cartilage tear: Principles and results....Pages 457-482
Technique of mosaicplasty....Pages 483-495
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Allograft osteoarticular resurfacing....Pages 497-503
Technique of chondrocytes implantation....Pages 505-510
Regenerative medicine for cartilage....Pages 511-516
The biomechanics of the patella....Pages 519-523
Imaging of the patellofemoral joint....Pages 525-531
Anterior knee pain and patellar instability: Diagnosis and treatment....Pages 533-537
Patellar stabilization for episodic patellar instability....Pages 539-548
Deepening trochleoplasty for patellofemoral instability....Pages 549-557
Front Matter....Pages 559-559
Patellofemoral osteoarthritis: Pathophysiologie, treatment, and results....Pages 563-572
Patellofemoral replacement....Pages 573-582
Is there a place for arthroscopy in the degenerative knee?....Pages 585-589
Surgical indications in medial knee osteoarthritis....Pages 591-600
Biomechanics, basis, and indications of osteotomies around the knee....Pages 603-609
Technique of closing wedge HTO....Pages 611-619
Technique of open wedge HTO....Pages 621-632
Results of HTO in medial OA of the knee....Pages 633-641
Osteotomies in the valgus knee....Pages 643-651
Medial closing wedge varus osteotomy of the distal femur....Pages 653-660
Technical considerations, results, and complications of mobile-bearing UKA....Pages 663-667
Fixed bearing unicompartmental knee prosthesis: Results, complications, and technical considerations....Pages 669-684
Front Matter....Pages 559-559
Indications of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty....Pages 685-687
Lateral Unicompartmental Knee Replacement....Pages 689-694
Front Matter....Pages 695-695
The history of total knee arthroplasty....Pages 699-707
Posterostabilized TKA: Advantages and disadvantages....Pages 709-720
Conservation of posterior cruciate ligament in fixed-bearing total knee replacement....Pages 721-728
Deep dish TKA: Advantages and disadvantages....Pages 729-733
Bicruciate retaining TKA: The future?....Pages 735-739
Mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty: Advantages and disadvantages....Pages 741-754
Fixed-bearing total knee arthoplasty: Advantages and disadvantages....Pages 755-757
Cement fixation for total knee arthroplasty....Pages 759-764
Pre-operative imaging techniques in primary total knee replacement: Role for computed tomography....Pages 767-774
The mini-subvastus approach for total knee arthroplasty....Pages 775-781
The degenerative knee — surgical techniques: “Gap balancing”....Pages 783-789
Component orientation and total knee arthroplasty....Pages 791-796
Rotation of components in total knee arthroplasty....Pages 797-807
Improving mobility....Pages 809-814
Medical management before and after TKA....Pages 815-821
Rehabilitation protocol following total knee arthroplasty....Pages 823-838
Why I always resurface the patella in TKA....Pages 841-855
Why I do not routinely resurface the patella in TKA....Pages 857-863
Front Matter....Pages 695-695
Total knee replacement navigation: The different techniques....Pages 867-878
Why using navigation in total knee arthroplasty?....Pages 879-884
Results and function of total knee arthroplasty....Pages 887-893
TKA in the stiff knee....Pages 897-900
The lateral approach in the valgus knee....Pages 901-906
TKA in the severe valgus knee: Lateral epicondyle sliding osteotomy technique....Pages 907-913
Total knee replacement in patients with severe varus deformity....Pages 915-922
Total knee arthroplasty after failed high tibial osteotomy....Pages 923-932
Total knee arthroplasty after malunion....Pages 933-940
Revision total knee arthroplasty after failed unicompartmental knee replacement....Pages 941-951
Causes of failures in TKA....Pages 955-967
The painful total knee arthroplasty....Pages 969-981
Pre-operative planning for revision TKA....Pages 983-988
Technique of revision: Surgical approach....Pages 989-1002
Revision TKA: Component removal....Pages 1003-1008
Management of bony defects in revision TKR....Pages 1009-1019
Stems in revision TKA....Pages 1021-1027
Technique of revision in TKA: Joint line level....Pages 1029-1037
Technique of revision in total knee arthroplasty: The patella....Pages 1039-1048
Extensor mechanism allograft — Surgical technique....Pages 1049-1056
Front Matter....Pages 695-695
Infection in total knee arthroplasty — Prevention....Pages 1057-1061
Diagnosis of infection after total knee arthroplasty....Pages 1063-1070
Infection in total knee arthroplasty: Treatment....Pages 1071-1079