No clinical benefit in gender-specific knee prostheses in females after TKA .
No clinical benefit of gender-specific total knee arthroplasty
Acta Orthop. 2014 Aug;85(4):415-21Six randomized controlled trials were included in the meta-analysis, the purpose of which was to evaluate the clinical and radiographic outcomes of gender-specific prostheses to standard unisex prostheses in female patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty. Pooled data showed no significant benefit to using gender-specific components for total knee arthroplasty in females.
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