Total knee arthroplasty for treatment of post-traumatic arthritis: Systematic review
Hesham Saleh, Stephen Yu, Jonathan Vigdorchik, Ran Schwarzkopf, Division of Adult Reconstruction, Department of Orthoapedic Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, NY 10003, United States
Author contributions: Saleh H drafted the initial manuscript; Saleh H and Yu S performed the research; Saleh H, Yu S, Vigdorchik J and Schwarzkopf R contributed equally to the work; Vigdorchik J and Schwarzkopf R conceptualized and designed the review; all authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript as submitted.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None of the authors have relevant disclosures to make in relation to the submitted study. Schwarzkopf R received research funding, speaker fees, consulting fees, or royalties from Smith and Nephew, Intelijoint. None of the authors own company stock or options. None of the authors own any patents. Schwarzkopf R and Vigdorchik J are on the editorial board Journal of Arthroplasty, Arthroplasty today. None of the authors are a board member of any societies.
Data sharing statement: All technical data is available from the corresponding author at schwarzk@gmail.com. Consent was not obtained for data sharing but the presented data is anonymized and the risk of identification is low.
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Correspondence to: Ran Schwarzkopf, MD, MSc, Division of Adult Reconstruction, Department of Orthoapedic Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 E 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, United States. ran.schwarzkopf@nyumc.org
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Received: March 27, 2016
Peer-review started: March 30, 2016
First decision: May 13, 2016
Revised: May 28, 2016
Accepted: June 27, 2016
Article in press: June 29, 2016
Published online: September 18, 2016
