A technique for intraoperative construction of antibiotic spacers

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 445, Issue , 2006, Pages 204-209

  Ha, Chul Won ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEMENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SPACER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; JOINT STABILITY; LEG LENGTH; MALE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REOPERATION;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646829461     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000201161.52196.c5     Document Type: Article

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