The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 81:1353 (1999)
© 1999 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
REVISION TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY. Edited by Paul A. Lotke and Jonathan P. Garino. Illustrated by Jaye Schlesinger. Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven, 1999. $165.00, 530 pp.
Charles R. Clark, M.D., Deputy Editor for Adult Reconstruction
Total knee arthroplasty has been a very successful treatment for end-stage arthritis of the knee for the past twenty-five years. The basic design of the original total condylar knee replacement has changed little since the early to middle 1970s. However, with the increasing longevity of the population and the performance of total knee arthroplasty in younger patients, revision procedures on the knee are becoming commonplace.
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