Dislocation of a polyethylene insert in an infected knee joint after a Triathlon total knee arthroplasty

This report presents the case of a 57-year-old male patient who underwent a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using an uncemented Triathlon system and subsequently went on to develop a prosthetic joint infection (PJI) with eventual polyethylene insert dislocation. This report presents the clinical, radi...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Idrees, Murray, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32821371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa287
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description This report presents the case of a 57-year-old male patient who underwent a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using an uncemented Triathlon system and subsequently went on to develop a prosthetic joint infection (PJI) with eventual polyethylene insert dislocation. This report presents the clinical, radiological and surgical findings of the insert dislocation on the background of PJI and explores this rare complication of TKA by providing a summary of the literature on this topic.
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spelling pubmed-74270432020-08-18 Dislocation of a polyethylene insert in an infected knee joint after a Triathlon total knee arthroplasty Ahmed, Idrees Murray, James J Surg Case Rep Case Report This report presents the case of a 57-year-old male patient who underwent a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using an uncemented Triathlon system and subsequently went on to develop a prosthetic joint infection (PJI) with eventual polyethylene insert dislocation. This report presents the clinical, radiological and surgical findings of the insert dislocation on the background of PJI and explores this rare complication of TKA by providing a summary of the literature on this topic. Oxford University Press 2020-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7427043/ /pubmed/32821371 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa287 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Dislocation of a polyethylene insert in an infected knee joint after a Triathlon total knee arthroplasty
title Dislocation of a polyethylene insert in an infected knee joint after a Triathlon total knee arthroplasty
title_full Dislocation of a polyethylene insert in an infected knee joint after a Triathlon total knee arthroplasty
title_fullStr Dislocation of a polyethylene insert in an infected knee joint after a Triathlon total knee arthroplasty
title_full_unstemmed Dislocation of a polyethylene insert in an infected knee joint after a Triathlon total knee arthroplasty
title_short Dislocation of a polyethylene insert in an infected knee joint after a Triathlon total knee arthroplasty
title_sort dislocation of a polyethylene insert in an infected knee joint after a triathlon total knee arthroplasty
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32821371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa287
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