Outcome in primary cemented total knee arthroplasty with or without drain A prospective comparative study

Indian Journal of Orthopaedics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 404-409

  Keska, Rafal ^a   Paradowski, T ^a,b   Witonski, Dariusz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b SUNDERBY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood loss; blood loss; drain; dressing reinforcement; knee; opioids; replacement; surgical drainage suction; total knee arthroplasty Mesh terms: Arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905572737     PISSN: 00195413     EISSN: 19983727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.136285     Document Type: Article

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