Treatment of knee prosthesis infections: Evaluation of 15 patients over a 5-year period

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1249-1254

  Kösters, Katrin ^a,b   Van Crevel, Reinout ^a   Sturm, Patrick D J ^a   Willem Schreurs, B ^a   De Waal Malefijt, Maarten C ^a   Van Kampen, Albert ^a   Kullberg, Bart Jan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HELIOS KLINIKUM KREFELD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONVALESCENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE DURATION; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE PAIN; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIXED INFECTION; MONOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROSTHESIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERAPY DELAY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349758783     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-008-0638-4     Document Type: Article

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