Deepening trochleoplasty may dramatically increase retropatellar contact pressures- a pilot study establishing a finite element model

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Orthopedics, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Forchstrasse 340, 8008, Zurich, Switzerland. dominik.kaiser@balgrist.ch.
• ² Department of Orthopedics, Biomechanical Research Laboratory, Balgrist Campus, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ³ Department of Orthopedics, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Forchstrasse 340, 8008, Zurich, Switzerland.