Surgical Closing in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Authors :: Ayers C
Linda L. Higgins
Roger H. Emerson
Source :: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 368:176
Publication Year :: 1999
Publisher :: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1999.
Abstract: The benefits of closing the surgical wound of a primary and revision total knee prosthesis with the knee in full flexion are examined. A previous study showed that surgically closing the primary knee arthroplasty with the knee in full flexion produced significantly more postoperative flexion at 6 mo