Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Study | Type of study | Variables in comparison | Type of incision /no. of knees | Follow-up duration (mean) | Difference in postoperative lateral flap numbness | Postoperative neuroma (no. of years from surgery) | Scar Healing | Wound dehiscence/hematoma formation | Range of motion | Functional recovery |
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Sundaram et al. [20] | Prospective randomized | Different patients/different time | ML/76 | 2.7 years | No difference | – | No difference | – | – | – |
MP/91 | – | – | – | – | ||||||
Shetty et al. [18] | Prospective randomized | Different patients/different time | ML/25 | 6 weeks | Significantly less with AL | – | – | More wound dehiscence with ML/– | Better flexion in AL – | AL better in early flexion recovery – |
AL/24 | – | |||||||||
Berg et al. [2] | Retrospective | Different patients/different time | MP/33 | 3 years | Significantly less with AL | 14/32 (6) | – | – | – | – |
AL/31 | 3/31 (6) | |||||||||
Laffose et al. [13] | Prospective randomized | Different patients/different time | ML/32 | 1 year | Significantly less with AL | 0 (1) | – | 0/0 | No difference | No difference |
AL/31 | 0 (1) | 0/2 | – | – | ||||||
Current study | Prospective randomized in bilateral simultaneous TKR patients | Same patients/same time | ML/20 | 1 year | Significantly less with AL | 0 (1) | No difference at 1 year | 1/0 | No difference | No difference |
AL/20 | 0 (1) | 0/0 |