Measurement of Chinese distal femur and its significances in total knee arthroplasty and prosthesis design

doi:10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2013.43.004

Abstract

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: It has become increasingly concerned by the industry to detailed understand the morphology of people’s knee joint, thus achieving personalized and gender differentiated total knee arthroplasty, in order to design the knee joint prosthesis that match the characteristics of Chinese people.
OBJECTIVE: To measure and characterize the morphological parameters of distal femur of normal adult Chinese people by CT tomography and three-dimensional reconstruction, and to discuss the differences between male and female in morphology of distal femur.
METHODS: Seventy normal Chinese adults (35 males and 35 females, aging from 21 to 60 years) received bilateral knee joint CT scan. The scanning images of distal femur which we needed were collected and handled with three-dimensional reconstruction or Picasa 3.0 software for collages and overlapping exposure. The posterior condylar angle, anterior condylar angle and trochlear angle were measured on the images that treated by the software, as well as the transverse diameter of distal femur, lateral condylar height, and the ratio between them.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The mean posterior condylar angle of Chinese women was larger than that of Chinese men (P < 0.05); the mean anterior condylar angle of Chinese men was larger than that of Chinese women (P < 0.05); The transverse diameter of distal femur, lateral condylar height and the femoral surface ratio (diameter/epicondyle height) of Chinese men were larger than those of Chinese women (P < 0.05). The results showed that differences exist in morphology of distal femur between Chinese and western people. Also, the differences exist between male and female in Chinese people. These differences should be concerned in the design of femoral prosthesis for Chinese people as well as in selecting and placing of femoral prosthesis before or during the total knee arthroplasty.

Key words: femur, arthroplasty, replacement, knee, imaging, three-dimensional, cicatrix, hypertrophic

CLC Number:

R318

Li Liang, Wu Hai-shan. Measurement of Chinese distal femur and its significances in total knee arthroplasty and prosthesis design[J]. Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research, doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2013.43.004.

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