Incidence of postoperative anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction infections: Graft choice makes a difference

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1780-1785

  Maletis, Gregory B ^a   Inacio, Maria C S ^b   Reynolds, Sarah ^a   Desmond, Jamie L ^b   Maletis, Michela M ^a   Funahashi, Tadashi T ^a  

^a Kaiser Permanente   (United States)

^b Kaiser Permanente   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL; hamstring autograft; infection; surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

ACL; ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BONE PATELLAR TENDON BONE GRAFT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HAMSTRING AUTOGRAFT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INJURY; KNEE INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL INFECTION; TENDON; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACL; HAMSTRING AUTOGRAFT; INFECTION; SURGICAL SITE INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BONE-PATELLAR TENDON-BONE GRAFT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KNEE INJURIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TENDONS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84881397249     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546513490665     Document Type: Article

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