Total Knee Arthroplasty through a Lateral Subvastus Approach

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Total Knee Arthroplasty through a Lateral Subvastus Approach

By Steve Nguyen

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April 3, 2023

The lateral subvastus approach to total knee arthroplasty spares the quadriceps. Intraoperative visualization is optimized ...
read more ↘ without compromising the surrounding soft tissues. Fascia on the lateral side of the knee are limited therefore osteotomizing the Gerdy's tubercle provides a bone fragment that is used to pass a suture through and fortify the wound closure. An MCL retractor is used to protect the MCL when approaching tibial cuts from the lateral side.
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