Comparison of closed-suction drainage and no drainage after primary total knee arthroplasty

Orthopedics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1121-1125

  Holt, Benjamin T ^a   Parks, Nancy L ^a   Engh, Gerard A ^a   Lawrence, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a ANDERSON ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRESSING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BANDAGES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DRAINAGE; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030856841     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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