Reliability of the anteroposterior axis and the posterior condylar axis for determining rotational alignment of the femoral component in total knee arthroplasty**An Abstract of this paper was presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association at Sapporo, held in June 1997

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