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LCS® Mobile Bearing Knee Arthroplasty

Abstract

Total knee arthroplasty represents a major advance in the management of severe, crippling arthritis of any kind. Both cemented and non-cemented implants have been developed in the New Jersey Low-Contact-Stress (LCS) Knee System of components [5,8].

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