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The femoral component alignment resulting from spacer block technique is not worse than after intramedullary guided technique in medial unicompartimental knee arthroplasty

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Mar 03, 2018

Matziolis G, et al. - Although the spacer block technique has been recommended for the implantation of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA), there is still a lack of data concerning the resulting component positioning. In this current investigation, it was demonstrated that in patients who had undergone medial UKA, results of spacer block technique were comparable to the intramedullary guided technique. However, the precision was low and outlier frequent. Greater attention ought to be paid to the precision of tibial resection due to the possibility of transferring a tibial malalignment to a femoral malalignment.
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