Aging Effect on Femoral Stress Fracture Risk in Pin-hole after Computer-navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty

컴퓨터 네비게이션 슬관절 전치환술에서 노화에 따른 핀 홀에서의 대퇴골 골절 위험성

  • 박형균 (경희대학교 테크노공학대학) ;
  • 박원만 (경희대학교 테크노공학대학) ;
  • 김윤혁 (경희대학교 테크노공학대학)
  • Published : 2008.11.05

Abstract

Recent clinical studies have shown that computer navigation for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) provides improved component alignment accuracy. However, femoral stress fracture after computernavigated TKA have been reported due to the pin hole and we hypothesized that osteoporosis would be one of the key factors in pin hole fracture after computer-navigated TKA. We investigated the von-Mises stress around the femoral pin-hole for different elastic modulli and ultimate stresses and four different pin penetration modes to understand the aging effect on femoral stress fracture risk after computer-navigated TKA by finite element analysis. In this study, aging effect was shown to increase the femoral stress fracture risk for all pin penetration modes. Especially, aging effect was shown dramatically in the transcortical pin penetration mode.

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