Rotationplasty with Vascular Reconstruction for Prosthetic Knee Joint Infection
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Rotationplasty with Vascular Reconstruction for Prosthetic Knee Joint Infection
Rotationplasty is used most often as a function-preserving salvage procedure after resection of sarcomas of the lower extremity; however, it is also used after infection of prosthetic knee joints. Conventional vascular management during rotationplasty is to preserve and coil major vessels, but recently, transection and reanastomosis of the major vessels has been widely performed. However, there...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Orthopedics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2090-6749,2090-6757
DOI: 10.1155/2015/241405