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SUBMITTER: Maupin JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6920719 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maupin Jeremiah Jacob JJ Corning Evan E Steinmetz Raymond Garrett RG White Jeremy J
Arthroplasty today 20190813 4
The gold standard for management of chronic periprosthetic joint infections is a 2-stage revision arthroplasty with the first stage being explantation, debridement, and placement of a spacer. While there are implants designed to manage periprosthetic infections in hip and knee arthroplasty, there are not any commercially available implants designed to specifically manage an infected total femur megaprosthesis. This creates a unique surgical challenge and requires custom construction of a spacer ...[more]