Are Patients With a History of Septic Arthritis Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty at Higher Risk for Revision Surgery? A Single-Center Study.

Background: The decision to perform a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) on a previously infected knee is made complicated by the higher risk for both a periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) and early failure. There is currently no standard in the treatment strategy for this group of patients. We here report the outcomes of performing a primary TKA on patients with a prior septic knee arthritis.

Lipoma arborescens - Uncommon Diagnosis for Joint Swelling: Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Introduction: Soft tissue swelling of the knee joint can be caused by many diseases. Lipomas are one of the most reasonable differential diagnoses we have to consider. Therefore, we now present the uncommon case of a Lipoma arborescens (LA) and differentiate it from a quite similar manifesting spindle cell lipoma as follows.