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En 1974, John Goodfellow & John O'Connor ont déposé le brevet de la prothèse à ménisque mobile (1). Le design du ménisque congruent de la prothèse Oxford assure une surface de contact maximum et minimise l’usure du polyéthylène (2)(3). L’indication de la prothèse Oxford est l’arthrose interne (4)(5).

Littérature :
(1) Goodfellow, J.W., O'Connor, J.J., and Shrive, N.G. (1974), British Patent Application No. 49794/74.
(2) "The Mechanics of the Knee and Prosthesis Design", Goodfellow, J.W., O'Connor, J.J., J.B.J.S. Vol. 60-B, No.3, August 1978, p.358-369.
(3) "Wear of congruent meniscal bearings in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty - A retrieval study of 16 specimens",, Psychoyios, V., Crawford, R.W., O'Connor, J.J., Murray, D.W., J.B.J.S. Vol 80-B, No.6., November 1998, p.976-982.
(4) "Anteromedial Osteoarthritis of the Knee", White, S.H., Goodfellow, J.W., O'Connor, J.J., Vol. 73-B, 1991, p.582-586.
(5) "Does Arthritis Progress in the Retained Compartments after "Oxford" Medial Unicompartmental Arthroplasty?", Weale, A.E., Murray, D.W., Crawford, R.W., Psychoyios, V., Bonomo, A., Howell, G., O'Connor, J.J., Goodfellow, J.W., J.B.J.S., Vol. 81-B, 1999, p.783-789.
(6) "The Oxford medial unicompartmental arthroplasty, a ten year survival study", Murray, D.W., O'Connor, J.J., Goodfellow, J.W., J.B.J.S. Vol 80-B, No.6., November 1998, p.983-989.
(7) "Results from a Swedish Centre", Svard, U., Advanced Oxford Unicompartmental Course, N.O.C., Oxford, 1998.
(8) "The Oxford Unicompartmental Meniscal Knee Bearing Knee; A Ten Year Clinical and Radiological Follow-up.", B.O.A., Dublin, 1998.
(9) "Reduced invasive approach for Oxford II medial unicompartmental knee replacement - a preliminary study", Keys, G.W., The Knee Vol. 6, Issue No. 3 (August 1999), p.193-196.
(10) "Use of unicompartmental instead of tricompartmental prostheses for unicompartmental arthrosis in the knee is a cost-effective alternative". Robertsson, O., Borgqist, L., Knutson, K., Lewold, S., Lidgren, L., Acta Orthop. Scand. 1999;70 (2): 170-175
(11) "Tibial Plateau Coverage in Total Knee Arthroplasty", Incavo et al., Clin. Orthop
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