Clinical effect of advanced gouty knee arthritis treated with total knee resurface replacement / 中国矫形外科杂志

ABSTRACT

[Objective]To analyse the clinical effect of total knee resurface replacement treatment for advanced knee gouty arthritis. [Method]From March 2001 to July 2007,nine patients with advanced gouty knee arthritis(total 10 knees) were treated with total knee resurface replacement with posterior stability prosthesis in the author's research group.Among them,eight patients had unilateral knees and one had bilateral knees.Following-up data were successfully obtained.[Result]All the patients were followed up for at least one year.HSS Score system revealed that six knees were rated as excellent,two as good and two as fair.Either preoperative or follow-up HSS scores was analysed by T-test and their significant differences were observed(P