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Arthrosurface
✐ Product page link: https://www.arthrosurface.com/products/knee/patello-femoral-implants/
✐ Surgical Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1DhULIgdQ
✐ Patient Testimonial link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKX8DHoBMxQ
Resurfacing is replacing a part of the joint with a metal or metal/plastic implant.


Most of the joint remains original
Resurfacing generally implies less bone loss than a partial knee replacement but - especially when talking about the contact surfaces between patella and femur - sometimes they may mean the same thing. So, for example, in a partial knee replacement of the patellofemoral joint, the back of the patella is resurfaced and the groove of the trochlea of the femur is resurfaced. The rest of the knee remains intact.
CLINICAL PUBLICATIONS
Prospective evaluation of anatomic patellofemoral inlay resurfacing: clinical, radiographic, and sports-related results after 24 months. Imhoff AB, Feucht MJ, Meidinger G, Schöttle PB, Cotic M. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2015 May;23(5):1299-307
A matched-pair comparison of inlay and onlay trochlear designs for patellofemoral arthroplasty: no differences in clinical outcome but less progression of osteoarthritis with inlay designs. Feucht MJ, Cotic M, Beitzel K, Baldini JF, Meidinger G, Schöttle PB, Imhoff AB. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2017 Sep;25(9):2784-2791
Early results of patellofemoral inlay resurfacing arthroplasty using the HemiCap Wave prosthesis. Patel A, Haider Z, Anand A, Spicer D. J Orthop Surg (Hong Kong). 2017 Jan;25(1)
See also -
- Patellofemoral resurfacing
- Patellar resurfacing
- Biologic resurfacing
- Focal resurfacing
- Trochlear implant