Tissue expansion for staged reimplantation of infected total knee arthroplasty

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 471-474

  Namba, Robert S ^a   Diao, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Revision total knee arthroplasty; Tissue expander; Wound complications

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; REIMPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE EXPANSION; TISSUE FLAP; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; WOUND CLOSURE;

EID: 0031544631     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-5403(97)90208-4     Document Type: Article

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