Tension controlled ligament balanced total knee arthroplasty: 5-year results of a soft tissue orientated surgical technique.

Introduction: Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL)-retaining prostheses give good outcomes and are commonly used. This retrospective study investigated outcomes from total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using the ligament balancing technique to implant a PCL-retaining knee prosthesis (balanSystrade mark knee system) with either a mobile or a fixed bearing polyethylene inlay.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study was performed on patients treated with TKA at one surgical centre between 1997 and 2001.

Progression of radiolucent lines in cementless twin-bearing low-contact-stress knee prostheses: a retrospective study.

A total of 134 low-contact-stress (LCS) total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) with mobile meniscal bearings were implanted in 121 patients with a mean age of 74 years (range, 49-91 years) at the time of surgery. The radiographic results obtained from 91 prostheses at an average follow-up of 7.5 years (range, 4.