Publications by authors named "Philipp Luedtke"
Article Synopsis
- The study addresses the higher revision rates associated with total ankle replacements (TARs) and proposes a new patient-specific implantation (PSI) technique to improve outcomes.
- Researchers used CT scans of 10 cadaver legs to determine the optimal positioning of the ankle prosthesis and assessed the accuracy of guiding block placements.
- Findings indicate that the PSI technique has a reliable guiding block positioning, which is crucial for proper prosthesis placement, with an average deviation of 14.6° from the preoperative to postoperative joint axis.
Background: Thorough understanding of the morphometry of the ankle joint is crucial to optimize conservative and operative therapy of ankle joint disorders. Despite recent improvements, basic anatomic and biomechanical correlations of the ankle joint including the orientation of the ankle joint axis and joint morphology as its key biomechanical features are not sufficiently recorded to date. The aim of this study was the evaluation of the ankle morphometry to gain information about the ankle joint axis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite intensive research there is no consensus about the talocrural joint axis. The aim of the present study is a new method to determinate the geometric rotational axis of the talocrural joint.
Methods: We analyzed 98 CT-scans of full cadaver Caucasian legs.