A 17.5-Year Bilateral Knee Cage Match (and It Ends in a Draw)

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If you’ve ever stared at a polyethylene insert and wondered, “Is this one really worth the hype?” —congratulations, this paper was written for you.

The authors deliver what every arthroplasty surgeon secretly wants but rarely gets: a perfect internal control with simultaneous bilateral TKAs (total knee arthroplasty), one knee rocking highly cross-linked polyethylene (HXLPE) and the other sticking with old-school conventional polyethylene (CP).