Can Implant Retention be Recommended for Treatment of Infected TKA?
- 17 November 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
- Vol. 469 (4), 961-969
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-010-1679-8
Abstract
Retention treatment is reportedly associated with lower infection control rates than two-stage revision. However, the studies on which this presumption are based depend on comparisons of historical rather than concurrent controls.Keywords
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