A New Preoperative Planning Technique Can Reduce Radiation Exposure During the Performance of Medial Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy.

Elad SpitzerJoseph J RuzbarskyJohn B DoyleKaitlyn L YinRobert G Marx

Published in: HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery (2017)

This new preoperative planning technique achieves similar accuracy of the lateral bone hinge when compared to current methods but exposes the patient, surgeon, and staff to significantly less intraoperative radiation.

Keyphrases

patients undergoing
total knee arthroplasty
case report
bone mineral density
minimally invasive
robot assisted
soft tissue
radiation induced
radiation therapy