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Arthrodesis remains a treatment option for patients who have recurrent infection, or who are poor candidates for reimplantation;
- problems inherent in the performance of knee arthrodesis following a total knee arthroplasty complicated by infection are bone loss, shortening, gait disturbance, & inability to eradicate infection;
- fusion rates of revised knee...

Over the past 30 years, the increasing success of total knee arthroplasty has gradually replaced arthrodesis as the procedure of choice in most conditions causing severe joint destruction. Instead of a primary procedure, arthrodesis is now considered a salvage procedure relegated to cases where total knee replacement may he contraindicated,...

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Debridement
IV Antibiotics pre-op
Planned knee position taking bone loss into account
Bone Apposition
Bone Grafting

Wide resection and mobile joint reconstruction are preferable for treating an osteosarcoma around the knee. In certain situations, resection arthrodesis or an amputation is suggested. This study compares the outcome in these three groups (not randomized so liable to selection bias (OWL editor))
CONCLUSIONS: The importance of early and proper planning...

We present the results in 12 patients of arthrodesis of the knee using a vascularised fibular graft after resection of a malignant bone tumour. At a mean follow-up of 95 months (60 to 178) all patients were free from disease although 11 had had at least one complication, with stress...

We report two cases in which arthrodesed knees were revised to total arthroplasties after the use of soft-tissue expanders. Case 1 had had multiple operations on her knee and had been arthrodesed for septic arthritis two years earlier. Case 2 had had knee arthrodesis for severe osteoarthritis 18 years before...