Medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty to patients with a ligamentous deficiency can cause biomechanically poor outcomes

ConclusionPoor outcomes of medial UKA in patients with ACL or MCL deficiency can be predicted. Care should be taken to extend the indications when performing medial UKA in patients with ligamentous deficiency, especially when varus knee with ACL or MCL deficiency is present.
Source: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy - Category: Orthopaedics Source Type: research