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Omental free-tissue transfer following infected total knee arthroplasty with granuloma formation

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  1. Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Yoneda Hospital, 1-11-5 Biwajima, Nishi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 451-0053, Japan

    Gintaro Ishihara

  2. Department of Orthopedics Surgery and Rheumatism, Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan

    Yoshito Eto, Masami Tukamoto, Tomotaro Sato, Atushi Kaneko, Daihei Kida, Hideki Sugishita, Kiwamu Saito & Kenitiro Tuji

  3. Department of Plastic Surgery, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Yuzuru Kamei & Kazuhiro Toriyama

  4. Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Yamaguchi Hospital, 3-28 Kafukuhondori, Minamiku, Nagoya, Aichi, 457-0836, Japan

    Gintaro Ishihara

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Ishihara, G., Eto, Y., Tukamoto, M. et al. Omental free-tissue transfer following infected total knee arthroplasty with granuloma formation. J Orthop Sci 15, 140–143 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00776-009-1413-0

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