Incision Infection With Mycobacterium tuberculosis After Total Hip Arthroplasty Without Any Primary Tuberculosis Focus

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 505.e1-505.e3

  Cansü, Eren ^a   Erdogan, Fahri ^b   Ulusam, Ayse Ovül ^c  

^a Kadikoy Hospital   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Abscess; Incision infection; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Total hip arthroplasty; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIP DISLOCATION; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HIP PAIN; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INCISION; SKIN SWELLING; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 79953051164     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2009.11.025     Document Type: Article

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