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Comment on: Two-stage revision of septic knee prosthesis with articulating knee spacers yields better infection eradication rate than one-stage or two-stage revision with static spacers

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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy Aims and scope

The Original Article was published on 21 January 2012

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    Thorsten Gehrke & Carl Haasper

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Gehrke, T., Haasper, C. Comment on: Two-stage revision of septic knee prosthesis with articulating knee spacers yields better infection eradication rate than one-stage or two-stage revision with static spacers. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 22, 1958–1959 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-013-2488-x

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