The Knee
Volume 17, Issue 5 , Pages 362-364 , October 2010

Unusual mechanical complications of unicompartmental low contact stress mobile bearing patellofemoral arthroplasty: A cause for concern?

  • B.R.B. Arumilli

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Trauma & Orthopaedics, Central Manchester University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 1612761234, +44 7813658499(mobile); fax: +44 1612765069.
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  • A.B.Y. Ng
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  • D.J. Ellis
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  • P. Hirst

Received 11 July 2009 ,Revised 7 October 2009 ,Accepted 10 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.knee.2009.10.006

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