Effect of smoking and soft tissue release on risk of revision after total knee arthroplasty: a case- control study

BACKGROUND: Increasing utilization of primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is projected to expand demand for revision TKA. Revision TKAs are procedurally complex and incur high costs on our financially constrained healthcare system. The purpose of this study was to use a case-control design to iden...

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Published in:BMC Musculoskelet Disord
Main Authors: Nwachukwu, Benedict U., Gurary, Ellen B., Lerner, Vladislav, Collins, Jamie E., Thornhill, Thomas S., Losina, Elena, Katz, Jeffrey N.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564968/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26353801
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-015-0694-z
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