Risk of septic knee following retrograde intramedullary nailing of open and closed femur fractures

BACKGROUND: One potential complication of retrograde femoral nailing in the treatment of femur fractures is the risk of septic knee. This risk theoretically increases in open fractures as a contaminated fracture site has the potential to seed the instrumentation being passed in and out of the steril...

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Autores principales: Halvorson, Jason J, Barnett, Marc, Jackson, Ben, Birkedal, John P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3305453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22340770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-7-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3305453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22340770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-7-7

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