CASE REPORT
Total knee arthroplasty with a long-stemmed component for fractures adjacent to the knee in rheumatoid arthritis: a report of four cases
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Masaaki Usui1 , Tadashi Watanabe1, Keiya Yamana1, Kenichiro Sakata1, Noriko Naito1 and Tomonori Tetsunaga1
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Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Okayama City Hospital, 6-10 Amase, Okayama 700-8557, Japan |
Received: 21 December 2004 Accepted: 23 May 2005
Abstract Four rheumatoid arthritis patients with fractures adjacent to the knee were treated by total knee arthroplasty with a long-stemmed component. All four fractures healed; joint reconstruction and limb realignment were achieved simultaneously. Total knee arthroplasty with a long-stemmed component was useful in stabilizing the fracture and rapidly restoring function in the joint and the limb.
Key words Arthroplasty - Fracture - Knee - Long stem - Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
