Partial Knee Arthroplasty

This book offers a concise review and international perspective on state-of-the art unicompartmental knee reconstruction procedures. To apply less invasive procedures resulting in fewer complications and shorter recoveries, it provides insights on patient selection, equipment design, and surgical techniques. Newer concepts such as the use of robotics and haptic surgery as well as outpatient surgeries are natural extensions of these surgeries. Long term outcomes along with complications and future directions are discussed as well.

Partial Knee Arthroplasty presents an ideal resource for the occasional partial knee arthroplastic surgeon to the expert interested in international and contemporary advances in partial knee replacement.

Jean-Noel Argenson is Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Surgery, as well as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (Hip and Knee Replacement) at the Aix Marseille University, Hospital Sainte-Marquerite, Marseille, France. He is also Medical Director of the Institute for Locomotion and chief of Bone and Joint Diseases of Marseille University-Hospital Centres. Besides EFORT, Prof. Argenson is actively involved in many professional societies and associations, and is a past-president of the European Knee Society and International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (I.S.T.A.). Prof. Argenson has special interests in biomechanics and range of motion, and MIS and computer assisted navigation in knee and hip arthroplasty, and has published close to 160 pubmed indexed papers on his research to date.

David F Dalury

David F. Dalury is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Maryland and Chief of Orthopedics at the University of Maryland St Joseph Hospital. After graduating from Dartmouth Medical School, he underwent training at the Harvard University hospitals and did a Fellowship in Adult Reconstruction at the Brigham and Woman’s Hospital. He is member of the Knee Society and the European Knee Society (as is JNA). He is especially interested in Adult Reconstruction and, published and presented extensively on the subject.