Sonication of antibiotic-loaded cement spacers in a two-stage revision protocol for infected joint arthroplasty

BACKGROUND: Culturing of the sonication fluid of removed implants has proven to be more sensitive than conventional periprosthetic tissue culture for the microbiological diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection. Since bacteria surviving on antibiotic-loaded cement spacers used in a two-stage exchange...

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Autores principales: Mariconda, Massimo, Ascione, Tiziana, Balato, Giovanni, Rotondo, Renato, Smeraglia, Francesco, Costa, Giovan Giuseppe, Conte, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24192225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-193

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24192225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-193

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