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Industrially Prefabricated Cement Spacers: Do Vancomycin- and Gentamicin-impregnated Spacers Offer A...

Industrially Prefabricated Cement Spacers: Do Vancomycin- and Gentamicin-impregnated Spacers Offer A...

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Industrially Prefabricated Cement Spacers: Do Vancomycin- and Gentamicin-impregnated Spacers Offer Any Advantage?

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Full title

Industrially Prefabricated Cement Spacers: Do Vancomycin- and Gentamicin-impregnated Spacers Offer Any Advantage?

Publisher

Boston: Springer US

Journal title

Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 2014-03, Vol.472 (3), p.923-932

Language

English

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Boston: Springer US

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Contents

Background
Industrially preformed antibiotic-loaded cement spacers are useful to facilitate the second stage of two-stage exchange arthroplasty for infected THAs and TKAs. However, whether gentamicin alone or a combination of antibiotics (such as vancomycin and gentamicin) is more effective is not known.
Questions/purposes
We therefore sou...

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Industrially Prefabricated Cement Spacers: Do Vancomycin- and Gentamicin-impregnated Spacers Offer Any Advantage?

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3916603

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3916603

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ISSN

0009-921X

E-ISSN

1528-1132

DOI

10.1007/s11999-013-3342-7

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