Increasing financial burden of revision total knee arthroplasty

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 945-948

  Oduwole, Kayode O ^a,b   Molony, Diarmuid C ^a   Walls, Ray J ^a   Bashir, Simi P ^a   Mulhall, Kevin J ^a  

^a CAPPAGH NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Implants; Infected TKA; Revision surgery; Revision TKA

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRELAND; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; IRELAND; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953911529     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1074-8     Document Type: Article

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