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Periprosthetic joint infections in femoral neck fracture patients treated with hemiarthroplasty – should we use antibiotic-loaded bone cement?

BACKGROUND: Hemiarthroplasty is the most common treatment in elderly patients with displaced intra-capsular femoral neck fracture (FNF). Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is one of the most feared and frequent complications post-surgery because of the frail health status of these patients and the nee...

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Autores principales: Crego-Vita, Diana, Aedo-Martín, Daniel, Garcia-Cañas, Rafael, Espigares-Correa, Andrea, Sánchez-Pérez, Coral, Berberich, Christof Ernst
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8891664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35317403
http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v13.i2.150