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Preoperative waiting time increased the risk of periprosthetic infection in patients with femoral neck fracture

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) remains a devastating complication of arthroplasty. Today, most displaced femoral neck fractures in the elderly are treated with arthroplasty. We estimated the incidence of and risk factors for PJI in primary arthroplasty after femoral neck fr...

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Autores principales: Westberg, Marianne, Snorrason, Finnur, Frihagen, Frede
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2013
Materias:
Hip
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23418949
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17453674.2013.775044