Periprosthetic Joint Infection: Are Patients With Multiple Prosthetic Joints at Risk?
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Periprosthetic joint infection: are patients with multiple prosthetic joints at risk?
Patients who present with a periprosthetic joint infection in a single joint may have multiple prosthetic joints. The risk of these patients developing a subsequent infection in another prosthetic joint is unknown. Our purposes were (1) to identify the risk of developing a subsequent infection in another prosthetic joint and (2) to describe the time span and organism profile to the second prost...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Arthroplasty
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0883-5403
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2012.01.002