Complications of the Attenborough knee replacement
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
- Vol. 68-B (1) , 100-105
- https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620x.68b1.3941125
Abstract
Of a consecutive series of 144 Attenborough knee replacements, 107 were re-examined between two and six years after operation and revealed a high incidence of complications. Wound problems were common and led to deep infection in four knees. When a patellar implant was used fracture of the patella followed in 17.5% of knees, but when the patella was not resurfaced 16% of knees developed patellofemoral pain of sufficient severity to require a further operation. In 10% of knees, definite loosening of one or both of the major components occurred.Keywords
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