Clinical predictors of elective total joint replacement in persons with end-stage knee osteoarthritis

BACKGROUND: Arthritis is a leading cause of disability in the United States. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has become the gold standard to manage the pain and disability associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Although more than 400 000 primary TKA surgeries are performed each year in the United S...

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Main Authors: Zeni, Joseph A, Axe, Michael J, Snyder-Mackler, Lynn
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877653/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20459622
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-11-86
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