Robot-assisted knee arthroplasty is a knee replacement procedure facilitated by computerised robots.

Planning for robotic knee surgery

Initially the surgeon uses pre-operative 3-D imaging to plan a knee replacement procedure that conforms to the patient's own anatomy, and then during the operation a computerised robotic arm uses this information to guide the saw cuts through the bone

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Dr Sheila Strover (Editor)
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