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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 5 Relation between implant positioning and patellar indices

From: Impact of patellar height on unicompartment knee arthroplasty: does patella baja lead to an inferior outcome?

 

Normal patellar indices

Patella baja

p value

Femoral inclination

0.5° (SD ± 2°)

0.4° (SD ± 2°)

0.11

Tibial cut angle

+0.45° (SD ± 3.2°)

+0.5° (SD ± 2.8°)

0.093

  1. + indicates varus and − indicates valgus