Hand-made articulating spacers for infected total knee arthroplasty: A technical note

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 329-332

  Villanueva, Manuel ^a   Ríos, Antonio ^b   Pereiro, Javier ^c   Chana, Francisco ^a   Fahandez Saddi, Homid ^d  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE PONIENTE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BONE CEMENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTICULATING SPACER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE; EXUDATE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; KNEE PROSTHESIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ORTHOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REOPERATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BONE CEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 33645762333     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17453670610046190     Document Type: Article

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