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. 2012 Jun 16;470(10):2854–2863. doi: 10.1007/s11999-012-2420-6

Table 6.

Literature review of surgical factors influencing incidence of lateral release

Study Type of release Lateral release rate (number of lateral releases/total patients) Number of lateral releases (total number of patients)
Approach Tibial bearing Navigation
Midvastus Medial parapatellar p value Mobile Fixed p value Navigated Nonnavigated p value
Engh et al. [8] Not described 5.1%
(6/118)
2 (61)
(3.3%)
4 (57)
(7%)
0.258
Keating et al. [17] Not described 15.5%
(51/200)
25 (100)
(2.5%)
26 (100)
(2.6%)
0.871
Kelly et al. [18] Not described 27.5%
(14/51)
1 (22)
(4.5%)
13 (29)
(45%)
< 0.01
Pagnano et al. [27] Inside-out 3.8%
(9/240)
3 (80)
(3.75%)
6 (160)
(3.75%)
*
Yang et al. [37] Inside-out 7.9%
(104/1318)
50 (940)
(5.3%)
54 (378)
(14.3%)
< 0.001
Current study Outside-in 10.6%
(205/1884)
24 (451)
(5.3%)
181 (1433)
(12.6%)
< 0.001 89 (761)
(11.7%)
116 (1123)
(10.4%)
0.35 161 (1423)
(11.3%)
44 (461)
(9.5%)
0.29

* No statistical evaluation reported.