No Clear Advantage to Use of Wound Drains After Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty. A Prospective Randomized, Controlled Trial

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 519-522

  Li, Cao ^a   Nijat, Ablimit ^a   Askar, Mamtimin ^a  

^a XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blood loss; Total knee arthroplasty; Wound drain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79955963699     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: 15328406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2010.05.031     Document Type: Article

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