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Epidemiology and Classification of Septic Total Hip Replacement

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Infection and Local Treatment in Orthopedic Surgery

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The list of potential complications following total hip arthroplasty is extensive. Aside from the life threatening complications of total hip replacement, no post-operative complication can be more devastating than infection.

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  1. Deparment of Surgical Medical Sciences, Section of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Catania, Italy

    G. Sessa, V. Pavone & L. Costarella

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  1. Istituto Ortopedico G. Pini Centro per il Trattamento delle Complicanze, Ortopediche Settiche (COS), Piazza Cardinal Ferrari 1, 20122, Milano, Italy

    Enzo Meani MD  & Carlo Romanò MD  & 

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 30 East Apple Street, Dayton, Ohio, 45409, USA

    Lynn Crosby MD

  3. Department of Traumatology, BG-Klinikum Bergmannstrost Halle, Merseburger Straße 165, 06112, Halle a. d. Saale, Germany

    Gunther Hofmann MD

  4. Tecres S.p.A., Via A. Doria, 6, 37066, Sommacampagna/VR, Italy

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Sessa, G., Pavone, V., Costarella, L. (2007). Epidemiology and Classification of Septic Total Hip Replacement. In: Meani, E., Romanò, C., Crosby, L., Hofmann, G., Calonego, G. (eds) Infection and Local Treatment in Orthopedic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47999-4_2

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