Team Approach: The Management of Infection After Total Knee Replacement

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China.
² Research Unit on Implant Infections, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy.
³ Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY.
⁷ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Review

Chun Hoi Yan et al. JBJS Rev. 2018 Apr.

. 2018 Apr;6(4):e9.

doi: 10.2106/JBJS.RVW.17.00058.

¹ Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China.
² Research Unit on Implant Infections, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy.
³ Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY.
⁷ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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