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Intraoperative subcutaneous wound closing culture sample: a predicting factor for periprosthetic infection after hip- and knee-replacement?
Arch Orthop Trauma Surg
October 2011
Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, BG Trauma Centre Ludwigshafen at the University of Heidelberg, Ludwig-Guttmann-Str. 13, 67071 Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Introduction: It is unknown whether intraoperative subcutaneous wound closing culture samples (WCCS) are useful to predict periprosthetic joint infection (PJI).
Method: Here we prospectively followed 167 out of a total of 175 consecutive patients with primary total hip (THR) or knee replacement (TKR) between 01/2002 and 12/2002 for a mean follow-up period of 5 years; of those patients, n = 159 (96.8%) underwent WCCS.