Open Debridement of Acute Gram-Positive Infections after Total Knee Arthroplasty

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 416, Issue , 2003, Pages 129-134

  Deirmengian, Carl ^a   Greenbaum, Jordan ^a   Stern, John ^b   Braffman, Michael ^b   Lotke, Paul A ^a   Booth Jr , Robert E ^c   Lonner, Jess H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Booth Bartolozzi Balderston Orthop   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MALE; OPEN DEBRIDEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS COMPONENT RETENTION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHESIS REMOVAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 0242441689     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000092996.90435.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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