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Original article title

Manual Instrumentation Is Associated With Greater Precision Than Patient-Specific Instrumentation For Initial Tibial Resections In Unrestricted Kinematic Alignment Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Comparative Cohort Study.

RESEARCHOrthop Traumatol Surg Res·

Abstract conclusion

“However, manual instrumentation was associated, in this two-surgeon series, with greater medial reproducibility and fewer large resection deviations, with a numerically lower, non-significant recut rate.”

Keep in mind

Observational · association, not causation.

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