patelloplasty

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noun

Repair or reconstruction of the patella

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Meanings

nounpatelloplasty (plural patelloplasties)

plural patelloplasties

  1. medicineRepair or reconstruction of the patella

    No patella replacements were used, and no other surgical patellar interventions such as lateral release or patelloplasty were performed before measurements, in order to achieve equivalent conditions before and after TKA.

    2015 July 21, Armin Keshmiri et al., “The influence of component alignment on patellar kinematics in total knee arthroplasty”, in Acta Orthopaedica, volume 86, →DOI

Origin

From patello- + -plasty.

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