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Patient specific guides for total knee arthroplasty are ready for primetime
Martijn GM Schotanus, Bert Boonen, Nanne P Kort, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Zuyderland Medical Centre, 6162 BG Sittard-Geleen, The Netherlands
Author contributions: Schotanus MGM designed the study, gathered and analysed all the data, wrote the initial draft of the manuscript, managed and performed the study; Boonen B ensured the accuracy of the data and the analysis and gave critical revisions related to important intellectual content of the manuscript; Kort NP designed the study, revised the manuscript and gave final approval of the version of the article to be published.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (METC Atrium-Orbis-Zuyd, Heerlen, the Netherlands) file name 13-N-09.
Informed consent statement: All patients gave informed consent prior to the study enrolment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Dr. Nanne P Kort is a consultant on the PSG technique for Biomet, Europe. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Martijn GM Schotanus, MSc, Research Manager, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Zuyderland Medical Centre, location Dr. H vd Hoffplein 1, 6162 BG Sittard-Geleen, The Netherlands. martijnschotanus@hotmail.com
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Received: February 11, 2015
Peer-review started: February 12, 2015
First decision: June 18, 2015
Revised: October 22, 2015
Accepted: November 17, 2015
Article in press: November 25, 2015
Published online: January 18, 2016
Peer-review started: February 12, 2015
First decision: June 18, 2015
Revised: October 22, 2015
Accepted: November 17, 2015
Article in press: November 25, 2015
Published online: January 18, 2016
Core Tip
Core tip: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is one of the most successful and commonly performed surgical procedure for the treatment of severe knee osteoarthritis with excellent 15-20 years survivorships. This article provides an analysis on patient specific matched guides (PSG) between different manufacturers and the conventional technique and between pin- and cutting guides for TKA. In addition, we compared our results with previous studies (level 1 evidence), which are generally unambiguous, and show no radiological difference. However, in this trial, we do see difference in favour of the PSG technique.