Impact of time to surgery from injury on postoperative infection and deep vein thrombosis in periprosthetic knee fractures

Purpose: Periprosthetic fracture (PPF) is a serious complication that occurs in 0.3%–2.5% of all total knee arthroplasties used to treat end-stage arthritis. To our knowledge, there are no studies in the literature that evaluate the association between time to surgery after PPF and early postoperati...

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Main Authors: Sung Ro Lee, Kevin Shrestha, Jackson Staggers, Peng Li, Sameer M. Naranje, Ashish Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-12-01
Series:Chinese Journal of Traumatology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1008127518300282

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