Fungal prosthetic joint infection after total knee arthroplasty

Indian Journal of Orthopaedics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 526-529

  Reddy, Kankanala J ^a   Shah, Jay D ^a   Kale, Rohit V ^a   Reddy, T Jayakrishna ^a  

^a APOLLO HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Candida tropicalis; fluconazole therapy; infected total knee arthroplasty; revision total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885410945     PISSN: 00195413     EISSN: 19983727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.118213     Document Type: Article

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