The incidence of deep prosthetic infections in a specialist orthopaedic hospital
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- 1 July 2006
- journal article
- Published by British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
- Vol. 88-B (7), 943-948
- https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620x.88b7.17150
Abstract
The Control of Infection Committee at a specialist orthopaedic hospital prospectively collected data on all episodes of bacteriologically-proven deep infection arising after primary hip and knee replacements over a 15-year period from 1987 to 2001.Keywords
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