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If arthritis is confined to one compartment of the knee joint, it may be difficult to decide whether to perform unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UK) or TKA. This is because widely varying results of UK have been reported in literature. There has been renewed interest in UK after Repicci introduced the minimally invasive techniques for UK. UK has certain advantages over TKA, and good results can be achieved in well-selected patients.

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Cho, W. (2014). Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty. In: Knee Joint Arthroplasty. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39389-1_6

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