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Preoperative synovial fluid culture poorly predicts the pathogen causing periprosthetic joint infection

PURPOSE: We investigated the value of preoperative pathogen detection and evaluated its concordance with intraoperative cultures in patients with culture-positive periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). METHODS: Culture-positive PJI episodes with available preoperative (synovial fluid) and intraoperat...

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Autores principales: Schulz, Philipp, Dlaska, Constantin E., Perka, Carsten, Trampuz, Andrej, Renz, Nora
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8159841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33141393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s15010-020-01540-2