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Partial knee replacement safer than total knee replacement

Source: Medical News Today

Partial knee replacement surgery is safer than total knee replacement according to a new study published in The Lancet.

Patients who had a partial knee replacement are 40 per cent more likely to have a re-operation, known as revision surgery, during the first eight years after the replacement, than those that had a total knee replacement.

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