High diagnostic value of synovial biopsy in periprosthetic joint infection of the hip infection

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 471, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 956-964

  Fink, Bernd ^a   Gebhard, Alexander ^a   Fuerst, Martin ^b   Berger, Irina ^c   Schäfer, Peter ^d  

^a Department of Joint Replacement General and Rheumatic Orthopaedics   (Germany)

^b MedBaltic and Sankt Elisabeth Hospital Kiel   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Joint Practice of Laboratory Medicine Ludwigsburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BONE CEMENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT ASPIRATION; JOINT BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; BIOPSY; BLOOD; EVALUATION; HIP; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP PROSTHESIS; INFECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; REOPERATION; SYNOVIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875796812     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-012-2474-5     Document Type: Article

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