Morra Edward A, Heim Christine S, Greenwald A Seth
Orthopedic Research Laboratories, Lutheran Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Orthopedics. 2007 May;30(5 Suppl):35-8.
The continuing global interest in the use of total and unicompartmental mobile-bearing knee designs is manifest by an appreciation of their clinical performance. Like their fixed plateau counterparts, mobile-bearing knees are influenced by patient and surgical variables as well as design, material, and manufacturing choices. This article is a focused description of tibiofemoral surface stress distributions, as a predictor of in vivo material durability for three contemporary designs at positions encountered during daily activity.
