CHEN Longfei 1 , SONG Yue 2 , GU Wang 2 , NAN Shaokui 2 , MENG Zhengxin 3 , LI Haifeng 2
  • 1. Department of Orthopedics, Kaifeng Central Hospital, Kaifeng Henan, 475000, P. R. China;
  • 2. Senior Department of Orthopedics, the Fourth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100142, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Orthopedics, Cangzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medcine, Cangzhou Hebei, 061000, P. R. China;
LI Haifeng, Email: lihaifengAI4ALL@163.com
Knee joint; unicompartmental knee arthroplasty; robots; preoperative planning; prosthesis size
10.7507/1002-1892.202406060
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Objective  To analyze the accuracy of prosthesis size selection in Naton robot-assisted medial unicondyle knee arthroplasty by comparing the actual prosthesis size used during operation and the preoperative planning. Methods  The clinical data of 100 patients (110 knees) who underwent Naton robot-assisted medial unicondylar knee arthroplasty between June 2023 and July 2024 was retrospectively analyzed, including 47 knees on left side and 63 knees on right side. There were 37 males (40 knees) and 63 females (70 knees) with a mean age of 65.4 years (range, 59-71 years). Body mass index was 22.2-28.6 kg/m2 (mean, 25.4 kg/m2). The disease duration ranged from 1 to 8 years (mean, 3.4 years). Preoperative planning was performed by Naton robotic surgical system based on lower limb CT data. The final prosthesis size after osteotomy was recorded and compared with the preoperative plan to analyse whether it was consistent with the preoperative plan, as well as the situation of knee flexion and extension gaps (<0.5 mm, >2.0 mm) corresponding to the different models of prostheses. Results During operation, 5 patients (5 knees) were treated with traditional UKA due to mechanical arm failure, software obstacles, significant bone amputation bias, or loose reference frame, and were excluded from the final analysis. The remaining 95 patients (105 knees) successfully received Naton robot-assisted surgery, and no related complications occurred. The prosthesis size was consistent with the preoperative plan in 101 knees (96.2%) on the femur side, 100 knees (95.2%) on the tibia side, and 97 knees (92.4%) on both femur and tibia sides. The prosthesis size was inconsistent in 3 cases (2.86%) on the femur side alone, 4 cases (3.81%) on the tibial side alone, and 1 case (0.95%) on both femur and tibial sides. Among the prostheses with different models, the flexion and extension gaps were less than 0.5 mm in 3 knees, the flexion gap was less than 0.5 mm and the extension gap was more than 2.0 mm in 3 knees, and the flexion gap was more than 2.0 mm and the extension gap was less than 0.5 mm in 2 knees. Conclusion  The accuracy of prosthesis size selection for Naton robot-assisted medial unicondylar knee arthroplasty is relatively high.

Citation： CHEN Longfei, SONG Yue, GU Wang, NAN Shaokui, MENG Zhengxin, LI Haifeng. Study on accuracy of prosthesis size selection for Naton robot-assisted medial unicondylar knee arthroplasty. Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery, 2024, 38(11): 1312-1316. doi: 10.7507/1002-1892.202406060 Copy

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