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Preoperative measurements included valgus\/varus deformation, mechanical axis, epicondylar axis, and tibial slope. Intraoperatively, measurement of femoral component rotation in 90\u2009degrees of knee flexion was conducted in three different positions of the patella: (1) patella reduced, (2) patella dislocated but not everted, and (3) patella dislocated and everted. The femoral component had significantly higher rotation when the patella was reduced compared with a dislocated patella (4.9\u2009\u00b1\u20092.1\u2009degrees vs. 4.2\u2009\u00b1\u20092.2\u2009degrees; p\u2009=\u20090.006) and compared with a dislocated and everted patella (4.9\u2009\u00b1\u20092.1\u2009degrees vs. 4.1\u2009\u00b1\u20092.3\u2009degrees; p\u2009=\u20090.006). Varus knees (n\u2009=\u200922) demonstrated significantly increased femoral component rotation if the patella was reduced (5.3\u2009\u00b1\u20092.2\u2009degrees) compared with dislocated patella without eversion (4.7\u2009\u00b1\u20092.3\u2009degrees; p\u2009=\u20090.037) and with eversion (4.4\u2009\u00b1\u20092.5\u2009degrees; p\u2009=\u20090.019). As such, the measurement of the mediolateral flexion gap stability with a laterally dislocated patella leads to a statistically significant overestimation of the lateral ligament stability and an underestimation of the external rotation positioning of the femoral component of approximately 1\u2009degree, which is aggravated in varus knees. 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