Modes of failure and revision of failed lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasties

摘要

Background: Even with the resurgence of interest in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) in recent years, lateral UKA is still performed 10 times less frequently than medial UKA. Hence, because of the infrequency of this procedure, a paucity of outcome studies exist on lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. This retrospective study was performed to analyze the main causes of failure, as well as the time to failure following lateral UKA.