Consensus document on prosthetic joint infections
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Consensus document on prosthetic joint infections
Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. Since the start of the modern era of prosthetic surgery, pros-thetic joint infections (PJIs) have been a predominant and most feared complication. Reduction of PJI has...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Orthopaedica
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1745-3674,1745-3682
DOI: 10.3109/17453674.2013.867399