No effect of drains on the postoperative hematoma volume in hip replacement surgery: A randomized study using scintigraphy

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 625-629

  Widman, Jan ^a,b   Jacobsson, Hans ^a   Larsson, Stig A ^a   Isacson, Johan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ST GÖRAN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL LABELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMATOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; DRAINAGE; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036908701     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000164702321039570     Document Type: Article

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