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Article: New Prosthesis Requires Just a Small Incision.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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A new approach to knee replacement surgery using a specially designed prosthesis and instrumentation that enables access to the knee through a small incision dramatically reduces time in the hospital, pain, and expenses while increasing the immediate and long-term mobility of patients who receive the procedure compared with traditional knee replacement surgery. The surgical instrumentation that permits minimally invasive unicompartmental knee replacement reduces the size of the incision required to place the prosthesis from about 18 inches in conventional knee replacement surgery to about three inches.
"The smaller incision speeds the patients' time to reach ...