Infection associated eith cortical allograft strut fixation of a periprosthetic femoral shaft fracture: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1630-1634

  Van Houwelingen, Andrew P ^a   Schemitsch, Emil H ^a,b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID;

ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE PROSTHESIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEBRIDEMENT; DETERIORATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OSTEOPENIA; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROTEUS VULGARIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND IRRIGATION; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE COURSE; FALLING; FATALITY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP PROSTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; WHEELCHAIR;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 67650317651     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000197626.75724.13     Document Type: Article

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