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Lateral femoral sliding osteotomy

LATERAL RELEASE IN TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY FOR A FIXED VALGUS DEFORMITY

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Trousseau University Hospital of Tours, 37044 Tours Cedex, France.

Correspondence should be sent to Dr J. Brilhault.

We treated 13 patients who had a fixed valgus deformity of the knee with a semiconstrained total knee arthroplasty combined with advancement of the lateral collateral ligament by means of a lateral femoral condylar sliding osteotomy. At follow-up of between one and 6.5 years all patients were assessed using the Knee Society score. The mean knee score improved from 32 to 88 and the functional score from 45 to 73. The mean tibiofemoral angle was corrected from 191° to 180°. There was no postoperative tibiofemoral or patellar instability and, in most knees, distal transposition of the lateral femoral condyle achieved satisfactory stable alignment.