Seminars in Arthroplasty
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 167-171, September 2009

Patella Resurfacing in Total Knee Arthroplasty: An Admonition of Common Sense: in Opposition

  • Robert L. Barrack, MD

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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, One Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Radiographs and clinical data on symptomatic total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients who had anterior knee pain were collected from a single referral clinic in a community where patella resurfacing and nonresurfacing were performed with a comparable incidence. A total of 36 patients with symptomatic resurfaced patellae after TKA were treated, 8 of which required surgical intervention. During the same period, only 2 patients with unresurfaced patellae underwent surgical intervention. In this cross-sectional survey, reoperations related to TKA with a resurfaced patella were more common than those related to a nonresurfaced patella.

Keywords: knee, patella, resurfacing

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PII: S1045-4527(09)00041-8

doi:10.1053/j.sart.2009.09.003

Seminars in Arthroplasty
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 167-171, September 2009

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