Propionobacter acnes infection as an occult cause of postoperative shoulder pain: A case series

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2824-2830

  Millett, Peter J ^a   Yen, Yi Meng ^b   Price, Connie S ^c   Horan, Marilee P ^a   Van Der Meijden, Olivier A ^a   Elser, Florian ^d  

^a STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CORTICOSTERONE; PENICILLIN V POTASSIUM; SULTAMICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT ASPIRATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES INFECTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANGE OF MOTION; REIMPLANTATION; SHOULDER PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND IRRIGATION; BIOPSY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAVAGE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOULDER; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; COLORADO; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER JOINT; SHOULDER PAIN; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054772935     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-011-1767-4     Document Type: Article

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