Two pegs are better than one: rare mode of femoral component failure in unicompartmental arthroplasty requiring revision to total knee arthroplasty

Femoral component fracture is a rare complication in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, especially in cemented prostheses. We present a 75-year-old man who presented with a fractured single-peg Vanguard component 9 years postoperatively. He was revised to a total knee arthroplasty with an excellent...

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Published in:Arthroplast Today
Main Authors: Stancil, Ryan, Summers, Nathan, Van Citters, Douglas, Sassoon, Adam
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5994598/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29896544
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2017.10.004
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