Obesity is a major risk factor for prosthetic infection after primary hip arthroplasty

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 153-158

  Dowsey, Michelle M ^a,b   Choong, Peter F M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEMENTATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRAIN; FEMALE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 41149085489     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-007-0016-3     Document Type: Article

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