Healing of surgical site after total hip and knee replacements show similar telethermographic patterns

Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 81-86

  Romanò, Carlo Luca ^a   Romanò, Delia ^a   Dell'Oro, Francesca ^a   Logoluso, Nicola ^a   Drago, Lorenzo ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Chirurgia Ricostruttiva e Delle Infezioni Osteo articolari   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hip; Infection; Knee; Thermography; Wound

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOTAXIME; ENOXAPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SMOKING; SURGICAL WOUND; TELETHERMOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THERMOGRAPHY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79958115076     PISSN: 15909921     EISSN: 15909999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10195-011-0135-1     Document Type: Article

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