Sonication of Antibiotic Spacers Predicts Failure during Two-stage Revision for Prosthetic Knee and Hip Infections

BACKGROUND: Periprosthetic joint infection is a leading cause of failure after two-stage reimplantation. One cause of relapse may be persistent subclinical infection. Difficulty exists in detecting biofilm-forming infections. Sonication disrupts biofilm and has led to higher rates of positive intrao...

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Main Authors: Nelson, Charles L., Jones, Robert B., Wingert, Nathaniel C., Foltzer, Michael, Bowen, Thomas R.
Format: Artigo
Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: Springer US 2014
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Clinical Research
Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4048437/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24658903
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11999-014-3571-4
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