Effect of smoking and soft tissue release on risk of revision after total knee arthroplasty: a case- control study

BACKGROUND: Increasing utilization of primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is projected to expand demand for revision TKA. Revision TKAs are procedurally complex and incur high costs on our financially constrained healthcare system. The purpose of this study was to use a case-control design to iden...

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Autores principales: Nwachukwu, Benedict U., Gurary, Ellen B., Lerner, Vladislav, Collins, Jamie E., Thornhill, Thomas S., Losina, Elena, Katz, Jeffrey N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26353801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-015-0694-z

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