Surgical Transepicondylar Axis Is Not a Reliable Reference when there Was Lateral Femoral Bowing.
Li-Ming LiuKai LeiLin GuoXin ChenPengFei YangDeJie FuRan XiongLiu YangPublished in: Orthopaedic surgery (2022)
The sTEA cannot be used as a stable reference when there was an obvious femoral bowing deformity. As the lateral femoral bowing increases, the orientation of sTEA becomes more varus, no matter the knee is varus or valgus.