%0 Journal Article
%T Osteotom¨ªa valguizante de tibia en el tratamiento de la gonartrosis
%A Prado Garc¨ªa
%A Olga E.
%A Arango Garc¨ªa
%A Gast¨®n
%A Mor¨¦ Lozano
%A Roberto
%A Rey Valdivia
%A Ninel
%A L¨®pez D¨ªaz
%A Haysell
%J Revista Cubana de Ortopedia y Traumatolog£¿-a
%D 2009
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X we made a descriptive and retrospective study in lower limbs and arthroscopy service of "frank pa¨ªs" international orthopaedic scientific center in 119 patients operated on from a genus varum secondary to gonarthritis from january 1, 2003 to december 31, 2007. in all them we performed a valgus osteotomy and immobilization with yeast. we propose to assess the results of surgical treatment of gonarthritis by means of tibial valgus osteotomy. we choice a sample of 96 patients (108 knees) fulfilling the inclusion criteria of study. the more frequent age group was those aged from 56 to 70 (59,22 %). the more involved was the female sex (66,24 %). more affected knee was the right one (61,56 %) and there was a predominance of grade i affection according ahlbac classification (73,44 %). the more frequent complication was the deformity relapse (6,48 %).
%K knee arthrosis
%K epidemiology
%K treatment
%K valgus osteotomies.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0864-215X2009000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en