The Chitranjan Ranawat Award: Should prophylactic antibiotics be withheld before revision surgery to obtain appropriate cultures? Knee

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 472, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-56

  Tetreault, Matthew W ^a   Wetters, Nathan G ^a   Aggarwal, Vinay ^b   Mont, Michael ^c   Parvizi, Javad ^b   Della Valle, Craig J ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROTHMAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ASPIRATION; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERIPROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN INCISION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 84891746078     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-3016-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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