Femurs are twisted and it screws up our knee replacements
This article uses the techniques we described in Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again and Femoral component rotation: Find
Category: Alignment of Total Knee Replacement
Femoral component rotation: Find your groove more accurately
This article follows on from Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again. In that article I explained why the
Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again
Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again This headline may sound a bit harsh, and no offense intended to
Femoral Rotation: Let’s Just Use the Posterior Condyles?
The most commonly used landmark to set femoral rotation is the posterior condyles. They are easy to find and easy
Femoral Malrotation: Harder to see but more likely to blame
OK, so femoral rotation is not the only thing you have to get right during a knee replacement. But it
Femoral Rotation : When the Gold Standard is a bit rubbish
The Gold Standard for femoral component rotation following total knee arthroplasty is a line parallel to the Surgical Epicondylar Axis (SEA) on a three-dimensional CT reconstruction of the knee.
