Letter to the Editor: New Definition for Periprosthetic Joint Infection: From the Workgroup of the Musculoskeletal Infection Society.
Department of Trauma Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. willem-jan.metsemakers@uzleuven.be.
Willem-Jan
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4114-9093
WJ
Metsemakers
AO Research Institute Davos, Davos, Switzerland.
Thomas Fintan
TF
Moriarty
Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Mario
M
Morgenstern
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Richard
R
Kuehl
Orthopaedic Septic Surgical Unit, Department of the Locomotor Apparatus Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Olivier
O
Borens
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Stephen
S
Kates
AO Research Institute Davos, Davos, Switzerland.
Robert Geoff
RG
Richards
Department of Trauma Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Michael
M
Verhofstad
D019643:Arthroplasty, Replacement / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D032921:Consensus; D005592:Fracture Fixation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007595:Joint Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D009626:Terminology as Topic
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