Transfusion drains versus suction drains in total knee replacement: Meta-analysis

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1766-1772

  Markar, Sheraz R ^a   Jones, Gareth G ^a   Karthikesalingam, Alan ^b   Segaren, Nicholas ^a   Patel, Rahul V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autologous; Total knee replacement; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SUCTION;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SUCTION;

EID: 84865470581     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1761-0     Document Type: Article

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