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Direct Exchange in Septic Total Knee Replacement

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Reconstruction of the Knee Joint

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The most important criterion for treatment is the time when the periprosthetic infection occurs. In acute, fulminant early infections and in most cases of septictoxic infection, we try to arrest the infective process by radical debridement and short-term suction-irrigation drainage.

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  1. Endo-Klinik, Holstenstrasse 2, Hamburg, D-22767, Germany

    E. Engelbrecht & L. Frommelt

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Aichi Medical University, 21 Yazako Karimata, Nagakute-cho, Aichi-gun, Aichi, 480-11, Japan

    Shigeo Niwa M.D., Ph.D. (Professor and Director) (Professor and Director)

  2. Department of Joint Disease, Nippon Medical School, 3-5-5 Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102, Japan

    Shinichi Yoshino M.D., Ph.D. (Professor) (Professor)

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650, Japan

    Masahiro Kurosaka M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565, Japan

    Konsei Shino M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  5. The Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital, 1 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, 790, Japan

    Sumiki Yamamoto M.D., Ph.D. (Director, Orthopaedic Surgeon) (Director, Orthopaedic Surgeon)

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Engelbrecht, E., Frommelt, L. (1997). Direct Exchange in Septic Total Knee Replacement. In: Niwa, S., Yoshino, S., Kurosaka, M., Shino, K., Yamamoto, S. (eds) Reconstruction of the Knee Joint. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68464-0_29

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68464-0_29

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