Pyrexia following total knee replacement

Knee

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 324-327

  Ghosh, Subhajit ^a   Charity, Richard M ^a   Haidar, Saadallah G ^a   Singh, Binod K ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arthroplasty; Fever; Knee; Pyrexia; Replacement

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; URINE CATHETER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745673177     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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