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Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty

Two cases of dislocation of total knee arthroplasty presented to us within the same week. The first patient is a 71-year-old woman who underwent bilateral primary total knee arthroplasty. The left knee dislocated three weeks after the surgery. Due to failure of conservative measures, she underwent r...

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Main Authors: Wazir, N.N., Shan, Y., Mukundala, V.V., Gunalan, R.
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Published: Stamford Publishing Pte Ltd / Singapore Medical Association 2007
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R Medicine (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/628/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17453086
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spelling my.um.eprints.6282014-10-27T06:18:50Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/628/ Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty Wazir, N.N. Shan, Y. Mukundala, V.V. Gunalan, R. R Medicine (General) Two cases of dislocation of total knee arthroplasty presented to us within the same week. The first patient is a 71-year-old woman who underwent bilateral primary total knee arthroplasty. The left knee dislocated three weeks after the surgery. Due to failure of conservative measures, she underwent revision total knee arthroplasty. The other patient is a 72-year-old woman presenting ten years after primary total knee arthroplasty, with a traumatic dislocation of the knee joint. She was treated as an outpatient with closed manipulative reduction. Stamford Publishing Pte Ltd / Singapore Medical Association 2007-05 Article PeerReviewed Wazir, N.N. and Shan, Y. and Mukundala, V.V. and Gunalan, R. (2007) Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty. Singapore Medical Journal, 48 (5). pp. 138-40. ISSN 0037-5675 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17453086 17453086
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topic R Medicine (General)
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Wazir, N.N.
Shan, Y.
Mukundala, V.V.
Gunalan, R.
Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty
description Two cases of dislocation of total knee arthroplasty presented to us within the same week. The first patient is a 71-year-old woman who underwent bilateral primary total knee arthroplasty. The left knee dislocated three weeks after the surgery. Due to failure of conservative measures, she underwent revision total knee arthroplasty. The other patient is a 72-year-old woman presenting ten years after primary total knee arthroplasty, with a traumatic dislocation of the knee joint. She was treated as an outpatient with closed manipulative reduction.
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author Wazir, N.N.
Shan, Y.
Mukundala, V.V.
Gunalan, R.
author_facet Wazir, N.N.
Shan, Y.
Mukundala, V.V.
Gunalan, R.
author_sort Wazir, N.N.
title Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty
title_short Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty
title_full Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty
title_fullStr Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty
title_full_unstemmed Dislocation after total knee arthroplasty
title_sort dislocation after total knee arthroplasty
publisher Stamford Publishing Pte Ltd / Singapore Medical Association
publishDate 2007
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/628/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17453086
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