Fungal infection of a total knee prosthesis: Successful treatment using articulating cement spacers and staged reimplantation

Orthopedics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1391-1394

  Wyman, James ^a   McGough, Richard ^a   Limbird, Richard ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BONE CEMENT; CEFALEXIN; CREATININE; FLUCONAZOLE; POLYETHYLENE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; EDEMA; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GRAM STAINING; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; JOINT BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; MYCOSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BONE CEMENTS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDIASIS; CEMENTATION; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; METHYLMETHACRYLATE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036920025     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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