Abstract
At the 2010 Effort congress Prof Hernigou of France stated that you never need to template knee x-rays as there is an absolute association with patients height and implant size. Templating of the knee for size is seldom done in clinical practice but could be handy when doing revision surgery where normal anatomy has been lost. This is however difficult with digital x-rays due to enlargement problems.
With this in mind we retrospectively looked at the size of knee implants inserted to see if there was any relation with patient's height and also to see if this differs in male and female patients.
Material:
2084 IB II and NexGen knee replacements were reviewed from our database and implant size was correlated to patient height.
Results:
Conclusion:
Patient length does not correlate to the AP size of the knee and cannot be used as a predictor of knee implant size.
