Is Single-stage Revision Safe Following Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty? A Critical Review

With the improvement in outcomes and modern prosthesis design, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has now become a commonly performed surgery. It is postulated that a total of 2-5% of the primary and revision TKA becomes infected every year, requiring a revision procedure which to date is the conventiona...

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Published in:Cureus
Main Authors: Vaishya, Raju, Agarwal, Amit Kumar, Rawat, Sudheer K, Singh, Harsh, Vijay, Vipul
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Cureus 2017
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Orthopedics
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662166/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29104837
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1629
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