Total knee arthroplasty in the next decade: is navigation necessary?

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore Correspondence to: Ming Han Lincoln Liow, MBBS, MRCS (Edin), MMed (Ortho), FRCSEd (Orth), FAMS. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, 20 College Road, Academia, Level 4, Singapore 169865, Singapore. Email: dr.lincoln.liow@gmail.com. Provenance and Peer Review: This article was commissioned by the editorial office, Annals of Translational Medicine. The article did not undergo external peer review. Comment on: Xu X, Liu P, Yuan Z, et al. Comparison of a novel handheld accelerometer-based navigation system and conventional instrument for performing distal femoral resection in total knee arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial. Ann Transl Med 2019;7:659.

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