Biomechanical advantage of low lateral hinge location in medial closing wedge distal femoral osteotomies.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Danieal Bin Ahmad
• مؤلفون آخرون: Chou Siaw Meng
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• الموضوعات: Engineering; Medicine, Health and Life Sciences; Medial closing-wedge distal femoral osteotomy; MCDFO; Lateral hinge fracture; LHF; Knee osteoarthritis; Finite element analysis; FEA
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177531
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The medial closing-wedge distal femoral osteotomy (MCDFO) is an established medical procedure used to manage lateral compartment cartilage injuries, knee osteoarthritis (OA), and genu valgum (knock-knee). However, there is a high incidence of lateral hinge fracture (LHF) after MCDFO, resulting...