Replacement of all three knee compartments with a prosthetic joint.
TKA resurfaces the entire tibiofemoral and patellofemoral joint and is the conventional default salvage option after a failed high tibial osteotomy. Pooled series suggest lower revision rates than UKA in this setting, but the comparison is indirect and the pooled TKA estimates are themselves highly heterogeneous.
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