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Kim: Total Ankle Arthroplasty
Case Report

The Ewha Medical Journal 1993; 16(4): 413-421.

Published online: 24 July 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1993.16.4.413

Total Ankle Arthroplasty

Jong-Oh Kim

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University Mok-Dong Hospital, Korea.

Copyright © 1993. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

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Abstract

Ankle Arthrodesis has been regarded as a good operative treatment for post traumatic and Rheumatoid arthritis of ankle, and Ankle Arthroplasty has been also developed with several types, from 1970, by Lord & Marotte.
Ankle arthroplasty is more functional & less cosmetic troublesome than arthrodesis, and with more developed prosthesis design, more good result will come.
The authors operated 6 cases of Total Ankle arthroplasty for post traumatic and Rheumatoid Arthritis of ankle, which were also indications of arthrodesis, and introduce the results and operative problems of ankle arthroplasty.

Keywords: Total Ankle Arthroplasty

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