Infection Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

For most orthopedists, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been regarded as the most effective surgery for patients with severe knee diseases. Though seldom occur, postoperative infection certainly remains one of the most devastating and dreaded complications of TKA. Thus, careful and early diagnosis...

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Autores principales: Chun, Keun Churl, Kim, Kwang Mee, Chun, Churl Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Knee Society 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24032096
http://dx.doi.org/10.5792/ksrr.2013.25.3.93
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description For most orthopedists, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been regarded as the most effective surgery for patients with severe knee diseases. Though seldom occur, postoperative infection certainly remains one of the most devastating and dreaded complications of TKA. Thus, careful and early diagnosis is needed. After diagnosis, categorize the infection type and choose a rightful and sequential step of treatment are recommended.
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spelling pubmed-37679032013-09-12 Infection Following Total Knee Arthroplasty Chun, Keun Churl Kim, Kwang Mee Chun, Churl Hong Knee Surg Relat Res Review Article For most orthopedists, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been regarded as the most effective surgery for patients with severe knee diseases. Though seldom occur, postoperative infection certainly remains one of the most devastating and dreaded complications of TKA. Thus, careful and early diagnosis is needed. After diagnosis, categorize the infection type and choose a rightful and sequential step of treatment are recommended. The Korean Knee Society 2013-09 2013-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3767903/ /pubmed/24032096 http://dx.doi.org/10.5792/ksrr.2013.25.3.93 Text en Copyright © 2013 KOREAN KNEE SOCIETY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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